A lower bound on the essential dimension of a connected linear group

Details A lower bound on the essential dimension of a connected linear group A lower bound on the essential dimension of a connected linear group

2007-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/math/0703813v1

Comment. Math. Helv. 84 (2009), no. 1, 189--212.

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Algebraic Geometry

21 pages

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Let G be a connected linear algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field k and H be a finite abelian subgroup of G whose order is prime to char(k). We show that the essential dimension of G is bounded from below by rank(H) - rank C_G(H)^0, where rank C_G(H)^0 denotes the rank of the maximal torus in the centralizer C_G(H). This inequality, conjectured by J.-P. Serre, generalizes previous results of Reichstein -- Youssin (where char(k) is assumed to be 0 and C_G(H) to be finite) and Chernousov -- Serre (where H is assumed to be a 2-group).

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