Representations and invariants of reductive groups in prime characteristic.

Representations of reductive groups are of vital importance in Lie Theory.<br /> Below we consider reductive groups G (e.g. GL_n or Sp_n) over a field k of prime characteristic.<br /> <br /> 1) See [4],[5],[6].<br /> The aforementioned representations often arise from reductive group actions on varieties. An important example is the adjoint action of a reductive group on its Lie algebra (for GL_n this is just conjugation). This leads to the adjoint representation on<br /> the algebra of functions k[g] on the Lie algebra g of G. The invariants are well-known and described by the Chevalley Restriction Theorem and the description of the Weyl group invariants on the Cartan subalgebra.<br /> <br /> One problem you could work on is a truncated version of this: You factor out the ideal I generated by the p-th powers of the linear functions and try to describe the invariants on k[g]/I. This is directly related to the centre of the restricted enveloping algebra, a finite dimensional associative algebra whose representations are the same as the restricted representations of g.Even for G=GL_n this is quite a nontrivial problem.<br /> <br /> 2) See [1], [2], [3].<br /> A famous open problem is the description of the decomposition numbers of a reductive group in characteristic p. These are the Jordan-Hoelder multiplicities of the irreducible in certain standard modules which can be obtained from characteristic 0 by reduction mod p. If you want to work on this problem, it is likely that you will have to work with a specific reductive group (e.g. GL_n or Sp_n) and make some assumptions on the prime.<br /> <br />

<p>Literature:<br /> [1] R. Tange, Injective and tilting resolutions for induced modules, Preprint.<br /> [2] R. Tange, A combinatorial translation principle and diagram combinatorics for the general linear group, to appear in Transform. Groups.<br /> [3] H. Li and R. Tange, A combinatorial translation principle and diagram combinatorics for the symplectic group, to appear in Transform. Groups.<br /> [4] R. Tange, Highest weight vectors and transmutation, Transform. Groups 24 (2019), no 2, 563-588.<br /> [5] A. Dent and R.Tange, Bases for spaces of highest weight vectors in arbitrary characteristic, Algebr. Represent. Theory 22 (2019), no. 5, 1133-1147.&nbsp;<br /> [6] The Zassenhaus variety of a reductive Lie algebra in positive characteristic, Adv. in Math. 224 (2010), no. 1, 340-354.</p>

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