Arithmetic purity of strong approximation for homogeneous spaces

It is known that, under a necessary non-compactness assumption, the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only one to strong approximation on homogeneous spaces X X under a linear group G G (or under a connected algebraic group, under assumption of finiteness of a suitable Tate-Shafarevich group), provided that the geometric stabilizers of X X are connected. In this work we prove, under similar assumptions, that the étale-Brauer-Manin obstruction to strong approximation is the only one for homogeneous spaces with arbitrary stabilizers. We also deal with some related questions, concerning strong approximation outside a finite set of valuations. Finally, we prove a compatibility result, suggested to be true by work of Cyril Demarche, between the Brauer-Manin obstruction pairing on quotients G / H G/H , where G G and H H are connected algebraic groups and H H is linear, and certain abelianization morphisms associated with these spaces.

Arithmetic of 0-cycles on varieties defined over number fields

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Consider strong approximation for algebraic varieties defined over a number field k k . Let S S be a finite set of places of k k containing all archimedean places. Let E E be an elliptic curve of positive Mordell–Weil rank and let A A be an abelian variety of positive dimension and of finite Mordell–Weil group. For an arbitrary finite set T \mathfrak {T} of torsion points of E × A E\times A , denote by X X its complement. Supposing the finiteness of ⨿ ⨿ ( E × A ) {\amalg \kern -.25pc\amalg } (E\times A) , we prove that X X satisfies strong approximation with Brauer–Manin obstruction off S S if and only if the projection of T \mathfrak {T} to A A contains no k k -rational points.

Local invariants and exceptional divisors of group actions

For a homogeneous space with connected or abelian stabilizer of a connected linear algebraic group defined over a number field, a cohomological obstruction to the Hasse principle is defined in terms of Galois hypercohomology with coefficients in a complex of two abelian algebraic groups. This obstruction is proved to be the only obstruction to the Hasse principle. It is proved that up to sign this cohomological obstruction coincides with the Brauer-Manin obstruction.

If G is a connected linear algebraic group over the field k, a Levi factor of G is a reductive complement to the unipotent radical of G. If k has positive characteristic, G may have no Levi factor, or G may have Levi factors which are not geometrically conjugate. In this paper we give some sufficient conditions for the existence and conjugacy of the Levi factors of G. Let $$ \mathcal{A} $$ be a Henselian discrete valuation ring with fractions K and with perfect residue field k of characteristic p > 0. Let G be a connected and reductive algebraic group over K. Bruhat and Tits have associated to G certain smooth $$ \mathcal{A} $$ -group schemes $$ \mathcal{P} $$ whose generic fibers $$ {{\mathcal{P}} \left/ {K} \right.} $$ coincide with G; these are known as parahoric group schemes. The special fiber $$ {{\mathcal{P}} \left/ {K} \right.} $$ of a parahoric group scheme is a linear algebraic group over k. If G splits over an unramified extension of K, we show that $$ {{\mathcal{P}} \left/ {K} \right.} $$ has a Levi factor, and that any two Levi factors of $$ {{\mathcal{P}} \left/ {K} \right.} $$ are geometrically conjugate.

The original Novikov conjecture concerns the (oriented) homotopy invariance of higher sig-natures of manifolds and is equivalent to the rational injectivity of the assembly map in surgery theory. The integral injectivity of the assembly map is important for other purposes and is called the integral Novikov conjecture. There are also assembly maps in other theories and hence re-lated Novikov and integral Novikov conjectures. In this paper, we discuss several results on the integral Novikov conjectures for all torsion free arithmetic subgroups of linear algebraic groups and all S-arithmetic subgroups of reductive linear algebraic groups over number fields. For re-ductive linear algebraic groups over function fields of rank 0, the integral Novikov conjecture also holds for all torsion-free S-arithmetic subgroups. Since groups containing torsion elements occur naturally and frequently, we also discuss a generalized integral Novikov conjecture for groups containing torsion elements, and prove it for all arithmetic subgroups of reductive linear algebraic groups over number fields and S-arithmetic subgroups of reductive algebraic groups of rank 0 over function fields. 1

Originating from a summer school taught by the authors, this concise treatment includes many of the main results in the area. An introductory chapter describes the fundamental results on linear algebraic groups, culminating in the classification of semisimple groups. The second chapter introduces more specialized topics in the subgroup structure of semisimple groups and describes the classification of the maximal subgroups of the simple algebraic groups. The authors then systematically develop the subgroup structure of finite groups of Lie type as a consequence of the structural results on algebraic groups. This approach will help students to understand the relationship between these two classes of groups. The book covers many topics that are central to the subject, but missing from existing textbooks. The authors provide numerous instructive exercises and examples for those who are learning the subject as well as more advanced topics for research students working in related areas.

Let $X$ be a normal projective variety and $f:X\to X$ a non-isomorphic polarized endomorphism. We give two characterizations for $X$ to be a toric variety. First we show that if $X$ is $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial and $G$-almost homogeneous for some linear algebraic group $G$ such that $f$ is $G$-equivariant, then $X$ is a toric variety. Next we give a geometric characterization: if $X$ is of Fano type and smooth in codimension 2 and if there is an $f^{-1}$-invariant reduced divisor $D$ such that $f|_{X\backslash D}$ is quasi-\'etale and $K_X+D$ is $\mathbb{Q}$-Cartier, then $X$ admits a quasi-\'etale cover $\widetilde{X}$ such that $\widetilde{X}$ is a toric variety and $f$ lifts to $\widetilde{X}$. In particular, if $X$ is further assumed to be smooth, then $X$ is a toric variety.

A linear algebraic group G over a field k is called a Cayley group if it admits a Cayley map, that is, a G-equivariant birational isomorphism over k between the group variety G and its Lie algebra. A Cayley map can be thought of as a partial algebraic analog of the exponential map. A prototypical example is the classical “Cayley transform” for the special orthogonal group SOn defined by Arthur Cayley in 1846. A linear algebraic group G is called stably Cayley if is Cayley for some r≥0. Here denotes the split r-dimensional k-torus. These notions were introduced in 2006 by Lemire, Popov, and Reichstein, who classified Cayley and stably Cayley simple groups over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. In this paper, we study reductive Cayley groups over an arbitrary field k of characteristic zero. Our main results are a criterion for a reductive group G to be stably Cayley, formulated in terms of its character lattice, and a classification of stably Cayley simple groups.

We solve the question about the splitting of the normalizer of a maximal torus in the exceptional linear algebraic groups over the algebraic closures of finite fields of positive characteristic.

Let [Formula: see text] be a [Formula: see text]-equivariant algebraic principal [Formula: see text]-bundle over a normal complex affine variety [Formula: see text] equipped with an action of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are complex linear algebraic groups. Suppose [Formula: see text] is contractible as a topological [Formula: see text]-space with a dense orbit, and [Formula: see text] is a [Formula: see text]-fixed point. We show that if [Formula: see text] is reductive, then [Formula: see text] admits a [Formula: see text]-equivariant isomorphism with the product principal [Formula: see text]-bundle [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a homomorphism between algebraic groups. As a consequence, any torus equivariant principal [Formula: see text]-bundle over an affine toric variety is equivariantly trivial. This leads to a classification of torus equivariant principal [Formula: see text]-bundles over any complex toric variety, generalizing the main result of [A classification of equivariant principal bundles over nonsingular toric varieties, Internat. J. Math. 27(14) (2016)].

This article introduces and studies the tight approximation property, a property of algebraic varieties defined over the function field of a complex or real curve that refines the weak approximation property (and the known cohomological obstructions to it) by incorporating an approximation condition in the Euclidean topology. We prove that the tight approximation property is a stable birational invariant, is compatible with fibrations, and satisfies descent under torsors of linear algebraic groups. Its validity for a number of rationally connected varieties follows. Some concrete consequences are: smooth loops in the real locus of a smooth compactification of a real linear algebraic group, or in a smooth cubic hypersurface of dimension≥2{\geq 2}, can be approximated by rational algebraic curves; homogeneous spaces of linear algebraic groups over the function field of a real curve satisfy weak approximation.

Degree 2 cohomological invariants of linear algebraic groups