It is proved that (elementary) Chevalley groups $G_π(Φ,K)$ and $G_{π'}(Φ',K')$ (or $E_π(Φ,K)$ and $E_{π'}(Φ',K'))$ over infinite fields $K$ and $K'$ of characteristics $\ne 2$, with weight lattices $Λ$ and $Λ'$, respectively, are elementarily equivalent if and only if the root systems $Φ$ and $Φ'$ are isomorphic, the fields $K$ and $K'$ are elementarily equivalent, the lattices $Λ$ and $Λ'$ coincide.
We prove the centrality of the congruence kernel for the elementary subgroup of a Chevalley group G of rank >1 over an arbitrary noetherian ring R (under some minor restrictions on R if G is of type C_n or G_2).
In the paper we prove that every automorphism of and elementary adjoint Chevalley group of types $A_l, D_l$, or $E_l$, over local commutative ring with 1/2 is a composition of a ring automorphism and conjugation by some matrix from the normalizer of the Chevalley group in $\GL(V)$ ($V$ is the adjoint representation space).
In this paper we prove that if $G(R)=G_π(Φ,R)$ $(E(R)=E_π(Φ, R))$ is an (elementary) Chevalley group of rank $> 1$, $R$ is a local ring (with $\frac{1}{2}$ for the root systems ${\mathbf A}_2, {\mathbf B}_l, {\mathbf C}_l, {\mathbf F}_4, {\mathbf G}_2$ and with $\frac{1}{3}$ for ${\mathbf G}_{2})$, then the group $G(R)$ (or $(E(R)$) is regularly bi-interpretable with the ring~$R$. As a consequence of this theorem, we show that the class of all Chevalley groups over local rings (with the listed restrictions) is elementary definable, i.\,e., if for an arbitrary group~$H$ we have $H\equiv G_π(Φ, …
Given a universal elementary Chevalley-Demazure group $E_Φ^{sc}(R)$ for which its (standard) parabolic subgroups are finitely generated, we consider the problem of classifying which parabolics $P(R) \subset E_Φ^{sc}(R)$ are finitely presented. We show that, under mild assumptions, this is equivalent to the finite presentability of a suitable retract of $P$ which contains the Levi factor. If the base ring $R$ is a Dedekind domain of arithmetic type, we combine our results with well-known theorems due to Borel-Serre, Abels, Behr and Bux to give a partial classification of finitely presentable $S…
We use Dunkl's operators to give an elementary proof of the surjectivity in the Chevalley's restriction theorem. In the second part of this article we describe the image of the invariants by the restriction map in the case of Takiff algebras. We extend this result to Takiff symmetric spaces.
In the paper we prove that every automorphism of a (elementary) Chevalley group of type $A_l, D_l$, or $E_l$, $l\geqslant 2$, over a commutative local ring with 1/2 is standard, i. e., is the composition of inner, ring, graph and central automorphisms.
We show that the standard set of elementary generators of an elementary isotropic reductive group over a connected finitely generated ring is a Kazhdan subset. This generalizes the corresponding result of M. Ershov, A. Jaikin-Zapirain, and M. Kassabov for Chevalley and twisted Chevalley groups.
In this paper we prove that every automorphism of (elementary) adjoint Chevalley group with root system of rank $>1$ over a commutative ring (with 1/2 for the systems $A_2$, $F_4$, $B_l$, $C_l$; with 1/2 and 1/3 for the system $G_2$) is standard, i.\,e., it is a composition of ring, inner, central and graph automorphisms.
An adjoint Chevalley group of rank at least 2 over a rational algebra (or a similar ring), its elementary subgroup, and the corresponding Lie ring have the same automorphism group. These automorphisms are explicitly described.
In the present paper, which is a direct sequel of our paper [12] joint with Roozbeh Hazrat, we prove unrelativised version of the standard commutator formula in the setting of Chevalley groups. Namely, let $Φ$ be a reduced irreducible root system of rank $\ge 2$, let $R$ be a commutative ring and let $I,J$ be two ideals of $R$. We consider subgroups of the Chevalley group $G(Φ,R)$ of type $Φ$ over $R$. The unrelativised elementary subgroup $E(Φ,I)$ of level $I$ is generated (as a group) by the elementary unipotents $x_α(ξ)$, $α\inΦ$, $ξ\in I$, of level $I$. Obviously, in general $E(Φ,I)$ has n…
In this paper we study a relationship between elementary equivalence of endomorphism rings of Abelian p-groups and second order equivalence of the corresponding Abelian p-groups.
Let $G$ be the universal Chevalley-Demazure group scheme corresponding to a reduced irreducible root system of rank $\geq 2$, and let $R$ be a commutative ring. We analyze the linear representations $ρ\colon G(R)^+ \to GL_n (K)$ over an algebraically closed field $K$ of the elementary subgroup $G(R)^+ \subset G(R).$ Our main result is that under certain conditions, any such representation has a standard description, i.e. there exists a commutative finite-dimensional $K$-algebra $B$, a ring homomorphism $f \colon R \to B$ with Zariski-dense image, and a morphism of algebraic groups $σ\colon G(B…
The following properties are preserved under elementary equivalence, among finitely generated groups: being hyperbolic (possibly with torsion), being hyperbolic and cubulable, and being a subgroup of a hyperbolic group. In other words, if a finitely generated group G has the same first-order theory as a group possessing one of the previous property, then G enjoys this property as well.
We prove that two co-Hopfian finitely generated virtually free groups are elementarily equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic. We also prove that co-Hopfian finitely generated virtually free groups are homogeneous in the sense of model theory.
Consider unbounded reduced Abelian p-groups (p > 2) A and A'. In this paper, we prove that if the automorphism groups Aut A and Aut A' are elementary equivalent then the groups A and A' are equivalent in the second order logic bounded by the final rank of the basic subgroups of A and A'.
In this paper, we continue our study of abstract representations of elementary subgroups of Chevalley groups of rank $\geq 2.$ First, we extend our earlier methods to analyze representations of elementary groups over arbitrary associative rings, and as a consequence, prove the conjecture of Borel and Tits on abstract homomorphisms of the groups of rational points of algebraic groups for groups of the form ${\bf SL}_{n,D}$, where $D$ is a finite-dimensional central division algebra over a field of characteristic zero. Second, we apply our results to study deformations of representations of elem…
The current article continues a series of papers on decomposition of unipotents and its applications. Let $G(Φ,R)$ be a Chevalley group with a reduced irreducible root system $Φ$ over a commutative ring $R$. Fix $h\in G(Φ,R)$. Call an element $a\in G(Φ,R)$ "good", if it lies in the unipotent radical of a parabolic subgroup whereas the conjugate to $a$ by $h$ belongs to another proper parabolic subgroup (here we assume that all parabolics contain a given split maximal torus). Decomposition of unipotents is a representation of a root unipotent element as a product of "good" elements. Existence o…
We consider the simply connected Chevalley group $G(E_7,R)$ of type $E_7$ in the 56-dimensional representation. The main objective of the paper is to prove that the following four groups coincide: the normalizer of the elementary Chevalley group $E(E_7,R)$, the normalizer of the Chevalley group $G(E_7,R)$ itself, the transporter of $E(E_7,R)$ into $G(\mathrm E_7,R)$, and the extended Chevalley group $\overline G(E_7,R)$. This holds over an arbitrary commutative ring $R$, with all normalizers and transporters being calculated in $GL(56,R)$. Moreover, we characterize $\overline G(E_7,R)$ as the …
The current paper is an addition to the previous paper by author, where the overgroup lattice of the elementary subsystem subgroup $E(Δ,R)$ of the Chevalley group $G(Φ,R)$ for a large enough root subsystem $Δ$ was studied. Now we study the connection between the elementary subgroup $\hat{E}(σ)$ given by the net of ideals of the ring $R$ and the stabilizer $S(σ)$ of the corresponding Lie subalgebra of the Chevalley algebra. In particular, we prove that under a certain condition the subgroup $\hat{E}(σ)$ is normal in $S(σ)$, and we also study some properties of the corresponding quotient group.
We study to what extent torsion-free (Gromov)-hyperbolic groups are elementarily equivalent to their finite index subgroups. In particular, we prove that a hyperbolic limit group either is a free product of cyclic groups and surface groups, or admits infinitely many subgroups of finite index which are pairwise non elementarily equivalent.
We prove that every homomorphism from the elementary Chevalley group over a finitely generated unital commutative ring associated with reduced irreducible classical root system of rank at least 2, and ME analogues of such groups, into acylindrically hyperbolic groups has an absolutely elliptic image. This result provides a non-arithmetic generalization of homomorphism superrigidity of Farb--Kaimanovich--Masur and Bridson--Wade.
We show that graph products of finite abelian groups are elementarily equivalent if and only if they are $\exists\forall$-equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic. In particular, two right-angled Coxeter groups are elementarily equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic.
The goal of this paper is to establish a general rigidity statement for abstract representations of elementary subgroups of Chevalley groups of rank at least 2 over a class of commutative rings that includes the localizations of 1-generated rings and the coordinate rings of affine curves. This is achieved by developing the approach introduced in our previous work, and in particular by verifying condition (Z) over the class of rings at hand. Our main result implies, for example, that any finite-dimensional representation of SL_n(Z[X]) (for n at least 3) over an algebraically closed field of cha…
We continue study of subgroups of a Chevalley group $G_P(Φ,R)$ over a ring $R$ with a root system $Φ$ and a weight lattice $P$, containing the elementary subgroup $E_P(Φ,K)$ over a subring $K$ of $R$. Recently A. Bak and A. Stepanov considered the symplectic case (i. e. the case of simply connected group of type $Φ=C_l$) in characteristic 2. In this article we extend their result for groups with arbitrary weight lattice of types $B_l$ and $C_l$. Similarly to the work of Nuzhin that handles the case of an algebraic extension $R$ of a nonperfect field $K$ of bad characteristic, we use in the des…
Irreducible Artin groups of finite type can be parametrized via their associated Coxeter diagrams into six sporadic examples and four infinite families, each of which is further parametrized by the natural numbers. Within each of these four infinite families, we investigate the relationship between elementary equivalence and isomorphism. For three out of the four families, we show that two groups in the same family are equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic; a positive, but weaker, result is also attained for the fourth family. In particular, we show that two braid groups are elementari…
Let G be a Chevalley group scheme of rank l. We show that the following holds for some absolute constant d>0 and two functions p_0=p_0(l) and C=C(l,p). Let p>p_0 be a prime number and let G_n:=G(\Z/p^n\Z) be the family of finite groups for n>0. Then for any n>0 and any subset S which generates G_n we have diam(G_n,S)< C n^d, i.e., any element of G_n is a product of Cn^d elements from S\cup S^{-1}. In particular, for some C'=C'(l,p) and for any n>0 we have, diam(G_n,S)< C' log^d(|G_n|). Our proof is elementary and effective, in the sense that the constant d and the functions p_0(l) and C(l,p) a…
In the 1960's Noboru Iwahori and Hideya Matsumoto, Eiichi Abe and Kazuo Suzuki, and Michael Stein discovered that Chevalley groups $G=G(Φ,R)$ over a semilocal ring admit remarkable Gauss decomposition $G=TUU^-U$, where $T=T(Φ,R)$ is a split maximal torus, whereas $U=U(Φ,R)$ and $U^-=U^-(Φ,R)$ are unipotent radicals of two opposite Borel subgroups $B=B(Φ,R)$ and $B^-=B^-(Φ,R)$ containing $T$. It follows from the classical work of Hyman Bass and Michael Stein that for classical groups Gauss decomposition holds under weaker assumptions such as $\sr(R)=1$ or $\asr(R)=1$. Later the second author no…
We give an algebraic characterization of elementary equivalence for polycyclic-by-finite groups. Using this characterization, we investigate the relations between their elementary equivalence and the elementary equivalence of the factors in their decompositions in direct products of indecomposable groups. In particular we prove that the elementary equivalence of two such groups G,H is equivalent to each of the following properties: 1)Gx...xG (k times G) and Hx...xG (k times H) are elementarily equivalent for a strictly positive integer k; 2)AxG and AxH are elementarily equivalent for two eleme…
Let D be a division ring such that the number of conjugacy classes in the multiplicative group D^* is equal to the power of D^*. Suppose that H(V) is the group GL(V) or PGL(V), where V is an infinite-dimensional vector space over D. We prove, in particular, that, uniformly in dim(V) and D, the first-order theory of H(V) is mutually syntactically interpretable with the theory of the two-sorted structure <dim(V),D> (whose only relations are the division ring operations on D) in the second-order logic with quantification over arbitrary relations of power <= dim(V). A certain analogue of this resu…
We classify the Morita equivalence classes of blocks with elementary abelian defect groups of order $16$ with respect to a complete discrete valuation ring with algebraically closed residue field of characteristic two. As a consequence, blocks with this defect group are derived equivalent to their Brauer correspondent in the normalizer of a defect group and so satisfy Broué's Conjecture.
This paper is the 10th in a sequence on the structure of sets of solutions to systems of equations over groups, projections of such sets (Diophantine sets), and the structure of definable sets over few classes of groups. In the 10th paper we answer affirmatively a question of R. L. Vaught on the elementary equivalence of free products of pairs of elementarily equivalent groups, and obtain a generalization of Tarski's problem on the elementary equivalence of non-abelian free groups. Finally, we prove that free products of stable groups is stable, generalizing a previous result on the stability …
Let $\mathcal G$ denote the space of finitely generated marked groups. We give equivalent characterizations of closed subspaces $\mathcal S\subseteq \mathcal G$ satisfying the following zero-one law: for any sentence $σ$ in the infinitary logic $\mathcal L_{ω_1, ω}$, the set of all models of $σ$ in $\mathcal S$ is either meager or comeager. In particular, we show that the zero-one law holds for certain natural spaces associated to hyperbolic groups and their generalizations. As an application, we obtain that generic torsion-free lacunary hyperbolic groups are elementarily equivalent; the same …
We present an elementary description of sofic equivalence relations, as well as some permanence properties for soficity. We answer a question by Conley, Kechris and Tucker-Drob of determining soficity in terms of the full group for aperiodic relations.
We classify the Morita equivalence classes of principal blocks with elementary abelian defect groups of order 64 with respect to a complete discrete valuation ring with an algebraically closed residue field of characteristic two.
We describe a general technique to classify blocks of finite groups, and we apply it to determine Morita equivalence classes of blocks with elementary abelian defect groups of order 32 with respect to a complete discrete valuation ring with an algebraically closed residue field of characteristic two. As a consequence we verify that a conjecture of Harada holds on these blocks.
We establish braided tensor equivalences among module categories over the twisted quantum double of a finite group defined by an extension of a group H by an abelian group, with 3-cocycle inflated from a 3-cocycle on H. We also prove that the canonical ribbon structure of the module category of any twisted quantum double of a finite group is preserved by braided tensor equivalences. We give two main applications: first, if G is an extra-special 2-group of width at least 2, we show that the quantum double of G twisted by a 3-cocycle w is gauge equivalent to a twisted quantum double of an elemen…
This paper has two main parts. In the first part we develop an elementary coordinatization for any nilpotent group $G$ taking exponents in a binomial principal ideal domain (PID) $A$. In case that the additive group $A^+$ of $A$ is finitely generated we prove using a classical result of Julia Robinson that one can obtain a central series for $G$ where the action of the ring of integers $\Z$ on the quotients of each of the consecutive terms of the series except for one very specific gap, called the special gap, is interpretable in $G$. Then we use a refinement of this central series to give a c…
The first author has recently classified the Morita equivalence classes of 2-blocks B of finite groups with elementary abelian defect group of order 32. In all but three cases he proved that the Morita equivalence class determines the inertial quotient of B. We finish the remaining cases by utilizing the theory of lower defect groups. As a corollary, we verify Broué's Abelian Defect Group Conjecture in this situation.
In this paper we prove a sandwich classification theorem for subgroups of the classical symplectic group over an arbitrary commutative ring $R$ that contain the elementary block-diagonal (or subsystem) subgroup $\operatorname{Ep}(ν, R)$ corresponding to a unitary equivalence realation $ν$ such that all self-conjugate equivalence classes of $ν$ are of size at least 4 and all not-self-conjugate classes of $ν$ are of size at least 5. Namely, given a subgroup $H$ of $\operatorname{Sp}(2n, R)$ such that $\operatorname{Ep}(ν, R) \le H$ we show that there exists a unique exact major form net of ideal…
For $G$ a connected, reductive group over an algebraically closed field $k$ of large characteristic, we use the canonical Springer isomorphism between the nilpotent variety of $\mathfrak{g}:=\mathrm{Lie}(G)$ and the unipotent variety of $G$ to study the projective variety of elementary subalgebras of rank $r$, denoted $\mathbb{E}(r,\mathfrak{g})$. In the case that $G$ is defined over $\mathbb{F}_p$, we define the category of $\mathbb{F}_p$-expressible subalgebras of $\mathfrak{g}$, and prove that this category is isomorphic to Quillen's category of elementary abelian subgroups of the finite Ch…
