Maximal Subgroups of Exceptional Algebraic Groups (Memoirs of the AMS) (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society) - Softcover

Seitz, Gary M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821825046 ISBN 13: 9780821825044

Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 1992

Synopsis

The goal of this book is the determination of the maximal closed connected subgroups of the simple algebraic groups of exceptional type. The main result recovers the results of Dynkin and extends them to cover the case of algebraic groups over algebraically closed fields of positive characteristic. The author first reduces to the case of semisimple subgroups, and then studies them via their action on the Lie algebra of the overlying exceptional group. The analysis is facilitated
by a particular 1-dimensional torus of the subgroup which determines a labelling of the Dynkin diagram of the exceptional group. The results of that paper, when combined with previous results concerning maximal subgroups of classical algebraic groups, yield a reasonably complete analysis of the maximal closed connected subgroups of simple algebraic groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821825046
• ISBN 13: 9780821825044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 197