A topological property of quasireductive group schemes

Fakhruddin, Najmuddin; Srinivas, Vasudevan

doi:10.2140/ant.2008.2.121

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A topological property of quasireductive group schemes

Najmuddin Fakhruddin and Vasudevan Srinivas

Vol. 2 (2008), No. 2, 121–134

DOI: 10.2140/ant.2008.2.121

Abstract

In a recent paper, Gopal Prasad and Jiu-Kang Yu introduced the notion of a quasireductive group scheme $G$ over a discrete valuation ring $R$ , in the context of Langlands duality. They showed that such a group scheme $G$ is necessarily of finite type over $R$ , with geometrically connected fibres, and its geometric generic fibre is a reductive algebraic group; however, they found examples where the special fibre is nonreduced, and the corresponding reduced subscheme is a reductive group of a different type. In this paper, the formalism of vanishing cycles in étale cohomology is used to show that the generic fibre of a quasireductive group scheme cannot be a restriction of scalars of a group scheme in a nontrivial way; this answers a question of Prasad, and implies that nonreductive quasireductive group schemes are essentially those found by Prasad and Yu.

Keywords

group scheme, quasireductive, nearby cycle

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 14L15

Secondary: 20G35

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Received: 12 March 2007

Revised: 25 July 2007

Accepted: 25 August 2007

Published: 15 March 2008

Authors

Najmuddin Fakhruddin
School of Mathematics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba Mumbai-400005 India

Vasudevan Srinivas
School of Mathematics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba Mumbai-400005 India

Vol. 2, No. 2, 2008