The irreducible subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups / Adam R. Thomas.
| Author/creator | Thomas, Adam R., 1988- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, [2020] |
| Description | v, 191 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 0065-9266 ; number 1307 |
| Contents | Strategy for the proofs of theorems 5.1-9.1 -- Irreducible subgroups of G2 -- Irreducible subgroups of F4 -- Irreducible subgroups of G = E6 -- Irreducible subgroups of G = E7 -- Irreducible subgroups of G = E8 -- Corollaries -- Tables for theorem 1 -- Composition factors for G-irreducible subgroups -- Composition factors for the action of Levi subgroups. |
| Abstract | "This monograph is a contribution to the study of the subgroup structure of exceptional algebraic groups over algebraically closed fields of arbitrary characteristic. Following Serre, a closed subgroup of a semisimple algebraic group G is called irreducible if it lies in no proper parabolic subgroup of G. In this paper we complete the classification of irreducible connected subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups, providing an explicit set of representatives for the conjugacy classes of such subgroups. Many consequences of this classification are also given. These include results concerning the representations of such subgroups on various G-modules: for example, the conjugacy classes of irreducible connected subgroups are determined by their composition factors on the adjoint module of G, with one exception. A result of Liebeck and Testerman shows that each irreducible connected subgroup X of G has only finitely many overgroups and hence the overgroups of X form a lattice. We provide tables that give representatives of each conjugacy class of connected overgroups within this lattice structure. We use this to prove results concerning the subgroup structure of G: for example, when the characteristic is 2, there exists a maximal connected subgroup of G containing a conjugate of every irreducible subgroup A1 of G"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "November 2020, volume 268, number 1307 (fourth of 6 numbers)." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021016995 |
| ISBN | 9781470443375 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |