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Proposition 2.2. Let \( \sigma : X \rightarrow Y \) be a finite dominant morphism between irreducible affine varieties over an algebraically closed field \( F \) . Then \( \sigma \) is surjective.
Proof. Let \( y \) be a point of \( Y \), and view \( y \) as an \( F \) -algebra homomorphism from \( \mathcal{P}\left( Y\right) \) to \( F \) . Since \( \sigma \) is dominant, its transpose is injective from \( \mathcal{P}\left( Y\right) \) to \( \mathcal{P}\left( X\right) \) . Consequently, \( y \) defines an \( F \...
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Lemma 4.2. Let \( A \) be an integral domain, \( B \) a subring of \( A \) such \( A \) is finitely generated as a B-algebra. Then there is a finite subset \( \left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{r}}\right) \) of \( A \) that is algebraically free over \( \left\lbrack B\right\rbrack \), and a non-zero element \( b \) of \( B \...
Proof. Let \( {A}^{\prime } \) be the sub \( \left\lbrack B\right\rbrack \) -algebra of \( \left\lbrack A\right\rbrack \) that is generated by \( A \) . Then \( {A}^{\prime } \) is a finitely generated \( \left\lbrack B\right\rbrack \) -algebra to which we can apply Theorem 1.2. This yields a finite subset \( \left( {{...
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Theorem 4.4. Let \( \sigma : X \rightarrow Y \) be a morphism between varieties over an algebraically closed field. If \( A \) is a constructible subset of \( X \) then \( \sigma \left( A\right) \) is a constructible subset of \( Y \) .
Proof. Since a constructible subset of \( X \) is a subvariety, it suffices to prove that \( \sigma \left( X\right) \) is a constructible subset of \( Y \) . Moreover, no generality is lost in assuming that \( X \) is irreducible. Hence, it suffices to prove that \( \sigma \left( X\right) \) is constructible in the cas...
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Theorem 4.5. Let \( \sigma : X \rightarrow Y \) be a dominant morphism between irreducible varieties over an algebraically closed field. Suppose that, for every closed irreducible subset \( W \) of \( Y \), each irreducible component of \( {\sigma }^{-1}\left( W\right) \) has dimension \( \dim \left( W\right) + \dim \l...
Proof. If we apply the assumption with \( W \) any 1-point subset of \( Y \), we find that \( \sigma \) is surjective. Now let \( W \) be any closed irreducible subset of \( Y \), and let \( {Z}_{1},\ldots ,{Z}_{k} \) be the irreducible components of \( {\sigma }^{-1}\left( W\right) \) . Put\n\n\[ r = \dim \left( X\rig...
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Proposition 5.2. Let \( \sigma : X \rightarrow Y \) be an injective and dominant morphism between irreducible varieties over an algebraically closed field \( F \) . Then the field of rational functions of \( X \) is a finite purely inseparable algebraic extension of the image, under the transpose of \( \sigma \), of th...
Proof. Applying Theorem 2.1 with a 1-point subset of \( Y \) in the place of \( W \) and using that \( \sigma \) is injective, we see that we must have \( \dim \left( X\right) = \dim \left( Y\right) \) . Therefore the field of rational functions of \( X \) is a finite algebraic extension of the image of the field of ra...
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Proposition 5.3. Let \( \rho : X \rightarrow Y \) be a morphism between irreducible varieties whose transpose is an isomorphism of the field of rational functions of \( Y \) onto the field of rational functions of \( X \) . Then there is an open non-empty subset \( U \) of \( Y \) such that \( \rho \) induces an isomor...
Proof. Without loss of generality, we assume that \( Y \) is affine. Let \( V \) be an affine patch of \( X \), and let \( W \) denote the closure of \( \rho \left( {X \smallsetminus V}\right) \) in \( Y \) . Since the irreducible components of \( X \smallsetminus V \) are of dimension \( < \dim \left( X\right) \), the...
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Lemma 1.1. Let \( R \) be a commutative Noetherian ring, \( M \) a finitely generated \( R \) -module, \( N \) a sub \( R \) -module of \( M \), and \( J \) an ideal of \( R \) . There is a non-negative integer \( k \) such that, for every \( n \geq k \), \[ \left( {{J}^{n} \cdot M}\right) \cap N = {J}^{n - k} \cdot \l...
Proof. Let \( \left( {{a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{r}}\right) \) be a system of \( R \) -module generators of \( J \), let \( t \) be an auxiliary variable over \( R \), and let \( S \) be the sub \( R \) -algebra \( R\left\lbrack {{a}_{1}t,\ldots ,{a}_{r}t}\right\rbrack \) of the polynomial algebra \( R\left\lbrack t\right\rb...
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Proposition 1.2. Let \( R \) be a Noetherian commutative ring, \( M \) a finitely generated R-module, J an ideal of R. Suppose that, for every a in J and every non-zero element \( x \) of \( M \), we have \( \left( {1 + a}\right) \cdot x \neq 0 \) . Then \( \mathop{\bigcap }\limits_{{n > 0}}{J}^{n} \cdot M = \left( 0\r...
Proof. Put \( N = \mathop{\bigcap }\limits_{{n > 0}}{J}^{n} \cdot M \) . Then we have \( \left( {{J}^{m} \cdot M}\right) \cap N = N \) for every non-negative integer \( m \), so that Lemma 1.1 gives \( N = {J}^{n - k} \cdot N \) for all \( n \geq k \) . Thus \( N = J \cdot N \) . Now let \( \left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_...
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Theorem 1.3. Let \( A\left\lbrack {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{q}}\right\rbrack \) be as described just above, and let \( M \) be a finitely generated graded \( A\left\lbrack {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{q}}\right\rbrack \) -module. There is a polynomial \( {P}_{M} \) of degree strictly less than \( q \), with rational coefficients,...
Proof. If \( q = 0 \) then, since \( M \) is finitely generated, we have \( {M}_{n} = \left( 0\right) \) for all sufficiently large \( n \) ’s, and \( {P}_{M} \) is the zero polynomial. Now we suppose that \( q > 0 \), and that the theorem has been established in the cases of fewer than \( q \) variables.\n\nThe endomo...
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Theorem 2.2. Let \( R \) be a Noetherian commutative ring. Let \( P \) be a prime ideal of \( R \) that is minimal prime over an ideal \( J \) generated by \( n \) elements. Then every properly increasing chain of prime ideals ending at \( P \) has length at most \( n \) .
Proof. Let \( {P}_{0} \subset \cdots \subset {P}_{k} = P \) be such a chain. We must prove that \( k \leq n \) . Replacing \( R \) with \( R/{P}_{0} \), if necessary, we reduce the problem to the situation where \( R \) is an integral domain. Consider the local ring \( {R}_{P} = R\left\lbrack {\left( R \smallsetminus P...
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Theorem 3.2. Let \( R \) be a commutative ring. If \( R \) satisfies the maximal condition for prime ideals, so does the polynomial ring \( R\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \) . If \( R \) has finite Krull dimension then the same holds for \( R\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \), and \[ k\left( R\right) + 1 \leq k\left( {R\left...
Proof. Let \( {P}_{0} \subset {P}_{1} \subset \cdots \) be a properly ascending chain of prime ideals of \( R\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \) . By Lemma 3.1, the chain \( {P}_{0} \cap R \subset {P}_{2} \cap R \subset \cdots \) formed with the even indices is properly ascending. Evidently, this gives the first part of The...
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Lemma 3.3. Let \( P \) be a minimal non-zero prime ideal of the Noetherian commutative ring \( R \). Then \( {PR}\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \) is a minimal non-zero prime ideal of \( R\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \).
Proof. Let \( p \) be a non-zero element of \( P \). We show that \( {PR}\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \) is minimal prime over \( {pR}\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \). Suppose that \( Q \) is a prime ideal of \( R\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \) containing \( p \) and contained in \( {PR}\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \). Then...
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Theorem 3.4. Let \( R \) be a Noetherian commutative ring, and assume that \( R \) has finite Krull dimension \( k\left( R\right) \) . Then \( k\left( {R\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack }\right) = k\left( R\right) + 1 \) .
Proof. If \( k\left( R\right) = 0 \) then Theorem 3.2 gives \( k\left( {R\left\lbrack x\right\rbrack }\right) = 1 \) . Now assume that \( k\left( R\right) = n > 0 \), and that the theorem has been established in the lower cases. Let \( {P}_{0} \subset \cdots \subset {P}_{m} \) be a properly ascending chain of prime ide...
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Corollary 3.5. Let \( R \) be a Noetherian integral domain, \( S \) an integral domain containing \( R \) and algebraic over \( \left\lbrack R\right\rbrack \) . Then \( k\left( S\right) \leq k\left( R\right) \) .
Proof. We suppose, without loss of generality, that \( k\left( R\right) \) is finite; say \( k\left( R\right) = n \) . Assume the corollary is false, and consider a properly ascending chain \( \left( 0\right) \subset {Q}_{1} \subset \cdots \subset {Q}_{n + 1} \) of prime ideals of \( S \) . Choose an element \( {q}_{i}...
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Theorem 3.6. Let \( R \) and \( S \) be integral domains such that \( R \subset S \) and \( S \) is integral over \( R \) . Let \( Q \) be a prime ideal of \( S \), and let \( {P}_{1} \) be a prime ideal of \( R \) containing \( Q \cap R \) . There is a prime ideal \( {Q}_{1} \) of \( S \) such that \( {Q}_{1} \cap R =...
Proof. Let \( \gamma \) denote the canonical homomorphism \( R/\left( {Q \cap R}\right) \rightarrow R/{P}_{1} \) . The inclusion map \( R \rightarrow S \) clearly induces an injective ring homomorphism \( R/\left( {Q \cap R}\right) \rightarrow S/Q \), by means of which we identify \( R/\left( {Q \cap Q}\right) \) with ...
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Corollary 3.7. Let \( R \) and \( S \) be as in Theorem 3.6. Then \( S \) has finite Krull dimension if and only if \( R \) has finite \( K \) rull dimension, and \( k\left( S\right) = k\left( R\right) \) .
Proof. Let \( {P}_{0} \subset {P}_{1} \subset \cdots \) be a chain of prime ideals of \( R \) . It follows at once from Theorem 3.6 that there is a chain \( {Q}_{0} \subset {Q}_{1} \subset \cdots \) of prime ideals of \( S \) such that \( {Q}_{i} \cap R = {P}_{i} \) for each \( i \) . Therefore, if \( k\left( S\right) ...
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Theorem 3.8. Let \( F \) be a field, and let \( R \) be a finitely generated integral domain F-algebra. Then \( R \) has finite Krull dimension, and \( k\left( R\right) \) is equal to the degree of transcendence of \( \left\lbrack R\right\rbrack \) over \( F \) .
Proof. Let \( r \) denote the degree of transcendence of \( \left\lbrack R\right\rbrack \) over \( F \) . By Theorem X.1.2, there is a transcendence basis \( \left( {{z}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{r}}\right) \) for \( \left\lbrack R\right\rbrack \) over \( F \) such that \( R \) is integral over the polynomial \( F \) -algebra \...
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In the notation introduced above, let \( \left( {{\gamma }_{1},\ldots ,{\gamma }_{q}}\right) \) be an \( R/m\left( R\right) \) - basis of \( m\left( R\right) /m{\left( R\right) }^{2} \), and let \( {x}_{i} \) be a representative of \( {\gamma }_{i} \) in \( m\left( R\right) \) . Then \( \left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{q}}...
Put \( P = m\left( R\right) \) and \( Q = R{x}_{1} + \cdots + R{x}_{q} \) . Then \( P = Q + {P}^{2} \) , and it follows inductively that \( P = Q + {P}^{n} \) for every positive exponent \( n \) . Now \( R/Q \) is a Noetherian local ring, with \( m\left( {R/Q}\right) = P/Q \) . From Proposition 1.2, we see that \( \mat...
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Corollary 4.2. If \( R \) is a regular Noetherian local ring then \( R \) is an integral domain, and integrally closed in [R].
Proof. By Theorem 4.1, \( G\left( R\right) \) is an integral domain. Clearly, this implies that \( R \) is an integral domain. In order to proceed, we introduce the following notation. For a non-zero element \( x \) of \( R \), let \( \mu \left( x\right) \) be the largest exponent \( n \) such that \( x \) belongs to \...
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Theorem 5.1. For every point \( p \) of the irreducible variety \( X \), we have \( \dim \left( {X}_{p}\right) \geq \dim \left( X\right) \) . If the base field is algebraically closed then the set of points where the equality holds, i.e., the set of non-singular points, is non-empty and open in \( X \) .
It is clear from the definitions that a point \( p \) of \( X \) is non-singular if and only if the local ring at \( p \) is regular. From Corollary 4.2, we have that every non-singular point is a normal point.
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Proposition 6.3. Let \( \rho : X \rightarrow Y \) be a dominant morphism between irreducible varieties over an algebraically closed field. Suppose that \( \rho \) is separable. Then there is a non-empty open subset \( U \) of \( X \) such that, for every \( p \) in \( U \), the points \( p \) and \( \rho \left( p\right...
Proof. Since \( \rho \) is separable, the map \( {\rho }^{\prime } \) from \( {\operatorname{Der}}_{F}\left( {F\left( X\right), F\left( X\right) }\right) \) to \( {\operatorname{Der}}_{F}\left( {F\left( Y\right), F\left( X\right) }\right) \) used in the proof of Proposition 6.2 is surjective. It is clear from Theorem 5...
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Proposition 1.2. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group, \( H \) an algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Let \( f \) be an element of \( {\left\lbrack \mathcal{P}\left( G\right) \right\rbrack }^{H} \) . There is a polynomial character \( g \) of \( H \) and elements \( s \) and \( t \) of \( \mathcal{P}\left( G\right...
Proof. We assume, without loss of generality, that \( f \neq 0 \), and we consider the polynomial \( H \) -module \( \left( {\mathcal{P}\left( G\right) f}\right) \cap \mathcal{P}\left( G\right) \) . This contains a simple sub \( H \) -module \( V \neq \left( 0\right) \) . Let \( {V}^{ \circ } \) denote the dual \( H \)...
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Theorem 2.2. Let \( F \) be an algebraically closed field, \( G \) an irreducible affine algebraic F-group, \( H \) an algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Then \( G/H \) can be endowed with the structure of an \( F \) -variety, actually, a quasi projective variety, such that the following requirements are fulfilled:\n\n(1)...
Proof. We have already established (1), (2) and (3). Clearly, (5) follows from our above construction of the variety structure on \( G/H \) . It remains only to verify (4).\n\nLet \( U \) be an open subset of \( V \) . Then \( {\alpha }^{-1}\left( U\right) \) is an open subset of \( G \) . Since \( \pi \) is an open ma...
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Lemma 4.1. Let \( G \) be a unipotent algebraic group over an algebraically closed field, and let \( V \) be an affine strict G-variety. Then every G-orbit in \( V \) is closed.
Proof. Without loss of generality, we assume that \( G \) is irreducible. Let \( T \) be a \( G \) -orbit in \( V \) . In proving that \( T \) is closed, we assume without loss of generality that \( T \) is dense in \( V \) . Then we know from Theorem X.4.3 that \( T \) contains a non-empty open subset, \( U \) say, of...
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Theorem 4.3. Let \( G \) be an irreducible solvable algebraic group over an algebraically closed field, \( H \) an algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Then the variety \( G/H \) is affine.
Proof. Proposition 4.2 reduces the theorem to the case where \( H \) is irreducible. Then, by Theorem VI.3.2, we can write \( H = {H}_{u} \bowtie T \), where \( T \) is a toroid, and \( G = {G}_{u} \bowtie S \), where \( S \) is a toroid containing \( T \) . It follows immediately from Theorem V.5.3 that \( S \) is a d...
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Proposition 5.1. Let \( G \) be an algebraic group, \( H \) an algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Suppose that, for every 1-dimensional polynomial H-module that is a sub H-module of a polynomial G-module, the dual H-module is also a sub H-module of a polynomial G-module. Then \( H \) is an observable subgroup of \( G \) .
Proof. Let \( N \) be a finite-dimensional polynomial \( H \) -module, and let \( M \) and \( g \) be as in Proposition 1.1. Let \( R \) be the 1-dimensional polynomial \( H \) -module determined by the polynomial character \( g \), so that the automorphism of \( R \) corresponding to an element \( x \) of \( H \) is t...
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Theorem 5.2. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group, \( H \) an algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Then \( H \) is observable in \( G \) if and only if \( {\left\lbrack \mathcal{P}\left( G\right) \right\rbrack }^{H} = \left\lbrack {\mathcal{P}{\left( G\right) }^{H}}\right\rbrack \) .
Proof. First, suppose that \( H \) is observable in \( G \), and let \( f \) be a non-zero element of \( {\left\lbrack \mathcal{P}\left( G\right) \right\rbrack }^{H} \) . We must show that \( f \) belongs to \( \left\lbrack {\mathcal{P}{\left( G\right) }^{H}}\right\rbrack \) . For this, it evidently suffices to show th...
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Lemma 1.2. Let \( F \) be an algebraically closed field, and let \( \rho : X \rightarrow Y \) be a bijective morphism between irreducible algebraic F-varieties. Suppose that an arbitrary group \( G \) acts transitively by variety automorphisms on \( X \) and on \( Y \) , and that \( \rho \) commutes with the action of ...
Proof. By Proposition X.5.2, \( F\left( X\right) \) is a finite algebraic extension of \( F\left( Y\right) \circ \rho \) . As in the proof of Theorem X.4.3, with \( r = 0 \), we see from this that there are affine patches \( U \) of \( X \) and \( V \) of \( Y \) such that \( \rho \) restricts to a finite morphism from...
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Theorem 1.3. Let \( G \) be an irreducible solvable algebraic group over an algebraically closed field, and let \( X \) be a complete strict \( G \) -variety. Then the set \( {X}^{G} \) of \( G \) -fixed points of \( X \) is not empty.
Proof. Making an induction on the dimension of \( G \), we suppose that the theorem has been established in the lower cases. Then we know that \( {X}^{\left\lbrack G, G\right\rbrack } \) is not empty. Being closed in \( X \), this is a complete variety, and it is evidently stable under the action of \( G \) . This acti...
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Theorem 2.1. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group over an algebraically closed field. For every Borel subgroup \( B \) of \( G \), the algebraic variety \( G/B \) is a projective variety, and every Borel subgroup of \( G \) is a conjugate of \( B \) .
Proof. Let \( C \) be a Borel subgroup of the largest possible dimension. By Theorem II.2.1, there is an injective polynomial representation of \( G \) on a finite-dimensional vector space \( V \) having a 1-dimensional subspace \( {S}_{1} \) whose stabilizer in \( G \) coincides with \( C \) . Consider the induced rep...
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Theorem 2.2. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group over an algebraically closed field. An algebraic subgroup \( P \) of \( G \) contains a Borel subgroup of \( G \) if and only if \( G/P \) is complete.
Proof. If \( P \) contains a Borel subgroup \( B \) of \( G \), then the canonical morphism \( \pi \) from \( G \) to \( G/P \) is constant on the cosets \( {xB} \) and therefore induces a morphism \( {\pi }^{B} \) from \( G/B \) to \( G/P \) . Since \( G/B \) is complete and \( {\pi }^{B} \) is surjective, it follows ...
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Proposition 2.3. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group over an algebraically closed field. Let \( \alpha \) be an automorphism of \( G \) leaving the elements of some Borel subgroup B fixed. Then \( \alpha \) is the identity automorphism.
Proof. Consider the map \( \delta \) from \( G \) to \( G \) where \( \delta \left( x\right) = \alpha \left( x\right) {x}^{-1} \) . This is a morphism of varieties that is constant on each coset \( {xB} \) . Therefore, \( \delta \) defines a morphism of varieties \( {\delta }^{B} \) from \( G/B \) to \( G \) . Since \(...
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Proposition 2.4. Let \( G \) be as above. If a Borel subgroup of \( G \) is nilpotent then it coincides with \( G \) .
Proof. We make an induction on the dimension of \( G \), and suppose that the proposition has been established in the lower cases. Let \( B \) be a nilpotent Borel subgroup of \( G \) . If \( B \) is trivial then it follows from Theorem 2.1 that \( G \) is trivial. Therefore, we suppose that \( B \) is non-trivial. For...
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Proposition 2.5. Let \( G \) be as above, and let \( T \) be a maximal toroid in \( G \) . Let \( C = {\mathcal{C}}_{G}{\left( T\right) }_{1} \) . Then \( C \) is nilpotent and coincides with \( {\mathcal{N}}_{G}{\left( C\right) }_{1} \) .
Proof. There is a Borel subgroup \( S \) of \( C \) such that \( T \subset S \) . Evidently, \( T \) is a maximal toroid in \( S \) . By Theorem VI.3.2, we have \( S = {S}_{u} \sim T \) . Since \( T \) is central in \( S \), this means that \( S \) is the direct product of \( {S}_{u} \) and \( T \), so that \( S \) is ...
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Proposition 3.2. Let \( G \) be as above, and let \( S \) be any toroid in \( G \) . There is an element \( s \) in \( S \) such that every element of \( G \) that commutes with \( s \) belongs to \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}\left( S\right) \) .
Proof. Let \( V \) be a finite-dimensional polynomial \( G \) -module such that the representation of \( G \) on \( V \) is injective. We may write \( V \) as a direct sum of \( S \) -stable subspaces \( {V}_{i} \) corresponding to mutually distinct polynomial characters \( {f}_{i} \) such that every element \( s \) of...
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Theorem 3.3. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group over an algebraically closed field, and let \( B \) be a Borel subgroup of \( G \). Then \( { \cup }_{x \in G}{xB}{x}^{-1} \) coincides with \( G \).
Proof. Choose a maximal toroid \( T \) in \( G \), and write \( C \) for \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}{\left( T\right) }_{1} \). By Proposition 2.5, \( C \) is nilpotent, so that it follows from Theorem VI.3.1 and the maxi-mality of \( T \) that \( C = {C}_{u} \times T \). By Proposition 3.2, there is an element \( t \) in \( \...
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Corollary 3.4. If \( G \) and \( B \) are as in Theorem 3.3 then \( B = {\mathcal{N}}_{G}{\left( B\right) }_{1} \) .
Proof. Evidently, \( B \) is a Borel subgroup of \( {\mathcal{N}}_{G}{\left( B\right) }_{1} \) . Since \( B \) is normal in \( {\mathcal{N}}_{G}{\left( B\right) }_{1} \), the corollary follows at once from Theorem 3.3, with \( {\mathcal{N}}_{G}{\left( B\right) }_{1} \) in the place of \( G \) .
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Theorem 4.2. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group over an algebraically closed field, \( S \) a toroidal algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Then \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}\left( S\right) \) is irreducible.
Proof. Let \( x \) be any element of \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}\left( S\right) \), and let \( B \) be a Borel subgroup of \( G \) . By Theorem 3.3, \( x \) belongs to some conjugate of \( B \) . This means that the fixed point set, \( P \) say, for \( x \) in \( G/B \) is non-empty. Being closed in the complete variety \( G/...
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Theorem 4.4. Let \( G \) be an irreducible algebraic group over an algebraically closed field. Let \( S \) be a toroidal subgroup of \( G \), and let \( B \) be a Borel subgroup of \( G \) containing \( S \) . Then \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}\left( S\right) \cap B \) is a Borel subgroup of \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}\left( S\right) ...
Proof. Applying Lemma 4.3, with the point \( B \) of \( G/B \) taking the place of \( p \) , we conclude that the canonical image of \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}\left( S\right) \) in \( G/B \) is closed in \( G/B \), and therefore complete. The canonical map induces a bijective morphism from \( {\mathcal{C}}_{G}\left( S\right)...
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Corollary 5.2. With \( G \) as in Theorem 5.1, let \( P \) be an algebraic subgroup of \( G \) containing a Borel subgroup of \( G \) . Then \( P \) is irreducible, and \( P = {\mathcal{N}}_{G}\left( P\right) \) .
Proof. Let \( B \) be a Borel subgroup of \( G \) that is contained in \( P \), and let \( x \) be an element of \( {\mathcal{N}}_{G}\left( P\right) \) . Then \( B \) and \( {xB}{x}^{-1} \) are Borel subgroups of \( {P}_{1} \) . Hence, there is an element \( p \) in \( {P}_{1} \) such that \( {px} \) normalizes \( B \)...
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Corollary 5.3. Let \( G \) be as above, \( B \) a Borel subgroup of \( G \). Then \( B = {\mathcal{N}}_{G}\left( {B}_{u}\right) \) .
Proof. Write \( P \) for \( {\mathcal{N}}_{G}\left( {B}_{u}\right) \). Since \( P \) contains \( B \), we know from Corollary 5.2 that \( P \) is irreducible. From the conjugacy of Borel subgroups, it follows that \( {B}_{u} \) is maximal in the family of irreducible unipotent subgroups of \( G \). Hence, \( P/{B}_{u} ...
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Proposition 1.1. Let \( F \) be a Galois extension of a field \( K \), with Galois group \( S \) . Let \( G \) be an affine algebraic \( F \) -group that is defined over \( K \) by the \( K \) -form \( A \) of \( \mathcal{P}\left( G\right) \) . Then the S-stable algebraic subgroups of \( G \) are precisely the algebrai...
Proof. Let \( H \) be an algebraic subgroup of \( G \), and let \( J \) be its annihilator in \( \mathcal{P}\left( G\right) \) . First, suppose that \( H \) is associated with \( A \), so that \( J \) is generated as an ideal by \( A \cap J \) . Clearly, this implies that \( \left( {{i}_{A} \otimes \sigma }\right) \lef...
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Proposition 1.2. Let \( F, K, S, G \) and \( A \) be as in Proposition 1.1. Suppose that \( H \) is a properly normal algebraic subgroup of \( G \) that is associated with \( A \) . Then \( G/H \) is defined over \( K \), with \( {A}^{H} \) as the \( K \) -form of \( \mathcal{P}\left( {G/H}\right) \) .
Proof. Let \( f \) be an element of \( \mathcal{P}\left( {G/H}\right) = {\left( A \otimes F\right) }^{H} \) . For every element \( y \) of \( G \), every element \( x \) of \( H \) and every element \( \sigma \) of \( S \), we have\n\n\[ \left( {{i}_{A} \otimes \sigma }\right) \left( f\right) \left( {{\sigma }^{\prime ...
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Lemma 1.3. Let \( S \) be a finite group of automorphisms of a field \( F \). Then every multiplicative and every additive cocycle for \( S \) in \( F \) is a coboundary.
Proof. There is an element \( t \) in \( F \) such that \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{\sigma \in S}}\sigma \left( t\right) = 1 \). Let \( f \) be an additive cocycle for \( S \) in \( F \), so that\n\n\[ f\left( {\sigma \tau }\right) = \sigma \left( {f\left( \tau \right) }\right) + f\left( \sigma \right) \]\n\nfor all ele...
Yes
Proposition 1.4. Let \( F \) be a Galois extension of a field \( K \) with Galois group \( S \) . Suppose that \( G \) is an affine algebraic \( F \) -group that is defined over \( K \) so as to be split solvable with respect to \( K \) . Then every Galois cocycle for \( S \) in \( G \) is a coboundary.
Proof. Let \( f \) be a Galois cocycle for \( S \) in \( G \), and let the \( {G}_{i} \) ’s be as in the above definition of \
No
Theorem 2.2. Let \( K \) be a perfect field, \( G \) an irreducible affine algebraic \( K \) - group, \( U \) an irreducible unipotent normal algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Then \( U \) is properly normal in \( G \) .
Proof. Let \( F \) and \( S \) be as in Theorem 2.1, and let \( {G}^{F} \) and \( {U}^{F} \) denote the groups obtained from \( G \) and \( U \) by the canonical base field extension. Then every element \( h \) of \( \mathcal{G}\left( {\mathcal{P}{\left( G\right) }^{U}}\right) \) is the restriction to \( \mathcal{P}{\l...
Yes
Theorem 4.2. Let \( H \) be an irreducible unipotent algebraic group over an algebraically closed field \( F \) . Then \( \mathcal{P}\left( H\right) = F\left\lbrack {{t}_{1},\ldots ,{t}_{n}}\right\rbrack \), where the \( {t}_{i} \) ’s are algebraically independent over \( F \), and \( \delta \left( {t}_{i}\right) - {t}...
Proof. Clearly, the result holds when \( H \) is of dimension 1 . Therefore, we suppose that the dimension of \( H \) is greater than 1, and that the theorem has been established in the lower cases. There is a 1-dimensional irreducible central algebraic subgroup \( Z \) of \( H \) . Let \( \pi \) be the canonical morph...
Yes
Proposition 2.2. Let \( G \) and \( K \) be as in Proposition 2.1. Suppose that \( L \) is another algebraic automorphism group of \( G \) that is normalized by \( K \) . Then \( {LK} \) is an algebraic automorphism group of \( G \) .
Proof. It is easy to see that \( \mathcal{P}\left( G\right) \) is locally finite as a right \( {LK} \) -module. Evidently, the restriction maps from \( {\mathcal{R}}_{G}\left( {LK}\right) \) to \( {\mathcal{R}}_{G}\left( L\right) \) and \( {\mathcal{R}}_{G}\left( K\right) \) are surjective morphisms of Hopf algebras. T...
Yes
Proposition 2.3. Let \( F \) be a field, \( G \) an affine algebraic \( F \) -group, \( K \) an algebraic automorphism group of \( G \) . Then the restriction to \( K \) of the canonical group homomorphism from \( \mathcal{W}\left( G\right) \) to the affine algebraic group of all Lie algebra automorphisms of \( \mathca...
Proof. For every element \( \alpha \) of \( \mathcal{W}\left( G\right) \), let \( {\alpha }^{\prime } \) denote the corresponding Lie algebra automorphism of \( \mathcal{L}\left( G\right) \) . Then the transform by \( {\alpha }^{\prime } \) of an element \( \tau \) of \( \mathcal{L}\left( G\right) \) is given by\n\n\[{...
Yes
Theorem 1.1. Let \( L \) be a Lie algebra over a field \( F \), and let \( X \) be a totally ordered \( F \) -basis of \( L \) . Let \( S\left( X\right) \) denote the set of all finite non-decreasing sequences of elements of \( X \) . For \( \left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) \) in \( S\left( X\right) \), put\n\n\...
Proof. An evident \
No
Theorem 2.1. Let \( L \) be a Lie algebra over a field \( F \) of characteristic 0 . Then the space of primitive elements of \( \mathcal{U}\left( L\right) \) coincides with \( L \) .
Proof. Choose a totally ordered \( F \) -basis \( \left( {x}_{\alpha }\right) \) for \( L \) . By Theorem 1.1, the element 1 of \( F \) and the ordered monomials \( {x}_{{\alpha }_{1}}^{{e}_{1}}\cdots {x}_{{\alpha }_{n}}^{{e}_{n}} \), where the \( {e}_{i} \) ’s are strictly positive integers, and \( {x}_{{\alpha }_{1}}...
Yes
Proposition 2.2. Let \( F, V, T, L \) be as above, and assume that \( F \) is of characteristic 0 . For every element \( t \) of \( T \), let \( {D}_{t} \) be the derivation effected by \( t \) in \( T \), so that\n\n\( {D}_{t}\left( u\right) = {tu} - {ut} \) . There is an \( F \) -linear projection \( \pi \) of \( T \...
Proof. Clearly, there is one and only one linear endomorphism \( \pi \) of \( T \) satisfying the equalities of the proposition and the condition \( \pi \left( v\right) = v \) for every element \( v \) of \( V \) . Moreover, it is evident from these properties that \( \pi \left( T\right) \) is contained in \( L \) . It...
Yes
Proposition 1.1. For an element \( x \) of \( L \), let \( {L}^{x} \) denote the subspace of \( L \) consisting of all elements that are annihilated by some power of \( {D}_{x} \) . Then \( {L}^{x} \) is a sub Lie algebra of \( L \) and coincides with its stabilizer in \( L \) .
Proof. The formula expressing \( {D}_{x}^{n}\left( \left\lbrack {u, v}\right\rbrack \right) \) as a sum of terms \( \left\lbrack {{D}_{x}^{p}\left( u\right) ,{D}_{x}^{q}\left( v\right) }\right\rbrack \) , where \( p + q = n \), shows that \( \left\lbrack {{L}^{x},{L}^{x}}\right\rbrack \subset {L}^{x} \).\n\nNext, if \(...
Yes
Proposition 1.2. In the notation of Proposition 1.1, \( {L}^{x} \) has an F-space complement \( {L}_{x} \) in \( L \) such that \( \left\lbrack {{L}^{x},{L}_{x}}\right\rbrack \subset {L}_{x} \) .
Proof. We let \( {L}_{x} \) be the subspace of \( L \) obtained from Fitting’s Lemma, so that \( {L}_{x} \) is the largest subspace of \( L \) on which \( {D}_{x} \) induces a linear automorphism. We have \( {L}_{x} = {D}_{x}^{p}\left( L\right) \) for some positive exponent \( p \), and it remains only to be shown that...
Yes
Theorem 1.3. Let \( L \) be a finite-dimensional Lie algebra over an infinite field \( F \), and let \( x \) be an element of \( L \) such that \( {L}^{x} \) is of the smallest possible dimension. Then \( {L}^{x} \) is a Cartan subalgebra of \( L \) .
Proof. By Proposition 1.1, it suffices to prove that \( {L}^{x} \) is a nilpotent Lie algebra. By Theorem VII.1.5, it suffices to show that, for every element \( y \) of \( {L}^{x} \), the restriction of \( {D}_{y} \) to \( {L}^{x} \) is nilpotent. Let \( {f}_{y} \) denote the characteristic polynomial of \( {D}_{y} \)...
Yes
Theorem 2.2. Let \( F \) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let \( L \) be a finite-dimensional \( F \) -Lie algebra. Let \( H \) be a Cartan subalgebra of \( L \) . For all elements \( \alpha \) and \( \beta \) of \( {H}^{ \circ } \), one has \( \left\lbrack {{L}_{\alpha },{L}_{\beta }}\right\rb...
Proof. The first statement follows immediately from the formula\n\n\[ \n{\left( {D}_{z,\alpha + \beta }\right) }^{n}\left( \left\lbrack {x, y}\right\rbrack \right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 0}}^{n}\left( \begin{array}{l} n \\ k \end{array}\right) \left\lbrack {{\left( {D}_{z,\alpha }\right) }^{k}\left( x\right) ,{\...
Yes
Theorem 2.3. Let \( F, L \) and \( H \) be as in Theorem 2.2, and let \( B \) denote the trace form of the adjoint representation of \( L \) . For \( \gamma \) in \( {H}^{ \circ } \), put \( {d}_{\gamma } = \dim \left( {L}_{\gamma }\right) \) . Then, for all elements \( x \) and \( y \) of \( H \), one has\n\n\[ B\left...
Proof. By Theorem 2.1, \( L \) is the direct sum of the family of sub \( H \) -modules \( {L}_{\gamma } \) . Hence, if \( T \) stands for trace and \( {D}_{x/\gamma } \) for the restriction of \( {D}_{x} \) to \( {L}_{\gamma } \), we have\n\n\[ B\left( {x, x}\right) = T\left( {D}_{x}^{2}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_...
Yes
Theorem 2.4. In the notation of Theorem 2.3, if \( \alpha \) and \( \beta \) are elements of \( {H}^{ \circ } \) such that \( \alpha + \beta \neq 0 \) then \( B\left( {{L}_{\alpha },{L}_{\beta }}\right) = \left( 0\right) \) .
Proof. By Theorem 2.2, if \( x \) belongs to \( {L}_{\alpha } \) and \( y \) to \( {L}_{\beta } \), then \( {D}_{x}{D}_{y} \) maps each \( {L}_{\gamma } \) into \( {L}_{\alpha + \beta + \gamma } \) . Now, it \( \gamma \) is a root then \( \alpha + \beta + \gamma \) is either no root or a root distinct from \( \gamma \)...
Yes
Theorem 3.2. In the above notation, \( H \) is abelian, and the roots of \( L \) with respect to \( H \) span \( {H}^{ \circ } \) over \( F \) .
Proof. Let \( \alpha \) be a non-zero root. Since \( \dim \left( {L}_{\alpha }\right) = 1,{D}_{h} \) acts as the scalar multiplication by \( \alpha \left( h\right) \) on \( {L}_{\alpha } \), for every element \( h \) of \( H \) . Now let \( N \) be the subspace of \( H \) consisting of the elements that are annihilated...
Yes
Proposition 3.3. In the above notation, let \( \left( {{\beta }_{1},\ldots ,{\beta }_{r}}\right) \) be any maximal \( F \) - linearly independent set of roots of \( L \) with respect to \( H \) . Then every root is a rational linear combination of the \( {\beta }_{i} \) ’s.
Proof. Let \( \beta \) be any root. Then \( \beta = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{r}{b}_{i}{\beta }_{i} \), with each \( {b}_{i} \) in \( F \) . Applying this to \( {h}_{{\beta }_{j}} \), we obtain\n\n\[ B\left( {{h}_{\beta },{h}_{{\beta }_{j}}}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{r}{b}_{i}B\left( {{h}_{{\beta...
Yes
Lemma 2.1. Let \( L \) be a finite-dimensional Lie algebra over a field of characteristic 0 . There is one and only one direct Lie algebra decomposition\n\n\[ L = {L}_{0} + {L}_{1} \]\n\nwhere \( {L}_{0} \) is semisimple and \( {L}_{1} \) is regular.
Proof. Let \( K \) denote the centralizer of \( M \) in \( L \), and let \( T \) be the radical of \( K \) . Since \( K \) is an ideal of \( L \), its radical \( T \) is contained in the radical of \( L \) . An application of Theorem VII.3.2 shows that \( \left\lbrack {T, T}\right\rbrack \subset M \), whence\n\n\[ \lef...
Yes
Corollary 2.3. Let \( F \) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let \( G \) be an irreducible affine algebraic \( F \) -group whose center is unipotent. Then the group of all Lie algebra automorphisms of \( \mathcal{L}\left( G\right) \) is the semidirect product \( E \bowtie W \), where \( E \) is ...
Proof. By Theorem XV.4.3, \( \mathcal{W}\left( G\right) \) is an algebraic automorphism group of \( G \), and thus is an affine algebraic \( F \) -group in the canonical fashion of Chapter XV. By Proposition XV.2.3, the canonical map from \( \mathcal{W}\left( G\right) \) to Aut \( \left( {\mathcal{L}\left( G\right) }\r...
Yes
Proposition 3.1. Let \( G \) be a simply connected affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field, and let \( N \) be a normal irreducible algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Then \( G/N \) is simply connected.
Proof. Let \( \pi \) denote the canonical morphism from \( G \) to \( G/N \), and consider a group covering \( \eta : H \rightarrow G/N \) . We must show that the kernel, \( K \) say, of \( \eta \) is trivial. Consider the fibered product \( P = H{ \times }_{\left( \eta ,\pi \right) }G \), i.e., the algebraic subgroup ...
Yes
Proposition 3.2. Let \( G \) be a simply connected affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. Then the radical of \( G \) is unipotent.
Proof. Write \( P \) for \( G/{G}_{u} \), and note that \( P \) is an irreducible linearly reductive affine algebraic group. Appealing to Theorems VII.1.2 and VIII.3.3, we see that \( \mathcal{L}\left( \left\lbrack {P, P}\right\rbrack \right) \) is semisimple. By Proposition 3.1, \( P \), and hence also \( P/\left\lbra...
Yes
Theorem 3.3. Let \( G \) be an irreducible affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let \( R \) denote the radical of \( G \) . Then \( G \) is simply connected if and only if \( R \) is unipotent and \( G/R \) is simply connected.
Proof. The necessity of the conditions has already been established in Proposition 3.1 and 3.2. Now suppose that the conditions are satisfied, and consider a group covering \( \eta : H \rightarrow G \), with kernel \( K \) . Let \( S \) denote the irreducible component of the neutral element in \( {\eta }^{-1}\left( R\...
Yes
Proposition 3.4. Let \( G \) be as in Theorem 3.3. If \( G \) is simply connected, so is every irreducible normal algebraic subgroup of \( G \) .
Proof. Let \( R \) denote the radical of \( G \), and let \( N \) be any irreducible normal algebraic subgroup of \( G \) . Clearly, \( N \cap R \) is a normal algebraic subgroup of \( N \), and \( N/\left( {N \cap R}\right) \) may be identified with its canonical image in \( G/R \) . Since \( \mathcal{L}\left( {G/R}\r...
Yes
Theorem 5.1. Let \( F \) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let \( L \) be a finite-dimensional \( F \)-Lie algebra with nilpotent radical \( R \). Then \( \mathcal{G}\left( L\right) \) is simply connected, its Lie algebra may be identified with L, and its algebra of polynomial functions is \( \m...
Proof. What remains to be proved is the last statement concerning \( \sigma \), and the fact that \( \mathcal{G}\left( L\right) \) is simply connected. However, if the last statement is applied to the inverse of the differential of a group covering of \( \mathcal{G}\left( L\right) \), it shows that the group covering i...
No
Theorem 5.2. Let \( F \) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let \( \eta : H \rightarrow G \) be a covering of irreducible affine algebraic \( F \) -groups. Suppose that \( T \) is a simply connected affine algebraic \( F \) -group, and \( \tau \) is a morphism of affine algebraic F-groups from \(...
Proof. By Theorem 5.1, we may identify \( T \) with \( \mathcal{G}\left( {\mathcal{L}\left( T\right) }\right) \) . Now \( \tau \left( T\right) \) is an irreducible algebraic subgroup of \( G \), and there is evidently an irreducible algebraic subgroup \( K \) of \( H \) such that the restriction of \( \eta \) to \( K \...
Yes
If \( \left( {a, b}\right) = d \), then the equation\n\n\[ n = {ax} + {by} \]\n\nis solvable with integers \( x, y \) if and only if \( d \mid n \) .
Moreover it follows from this that every common divisor of \( a \) and \( b \) divides the GCD of \( a, b \) .\n\nTo ascertain the GCD one uses, as is well-known, a process which goes back to Euclid, the so-called Euclidean algorithm. The main point of this algorithm consists of reducing the calculation of \( \left( {a...
No
Theorem 2. The numbers in a module \( S \) are identical with the multiples of certain number \( d.d \) is determined by \( S \) up to the factor \( \pm 1 \) .
For the proof we consider that \( S \) contains positive numbers in any case. Let \( d \) be the smallest positive number occurring in \( S \) . If \( n \) belongs to \( S \), then by what has gone before, \( n - {qd} \) also belongs to \( S \) for each integer \( q \), in particular so must the remainder of \( n{\;\op...
Yes
Theorem 3. The range of values of an arbitrary linear form in \( n \) variables with integral coefficients, not all vanishing, is identical with the range of values of a certain form of one variable \( d \cdot x \) . Here \( d \) is the GCD of the coefficients of the original form.
In order that the equation (a so-called Diophantine equation)\n\n\[ k = {a}_{1}{x}_{1} + {a}_{2}{x}_{2} + \cdots + {a}_{n}{x}_{n} \]\n\nbe solvable in integers \( {x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n} \), it is necessary and sufficient that the GCD of \( {a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{n} \) divides \( k \) .
No
Theorem 4. For every three integers \( a, b, c \), where \( c > 0 \n\n\[ \left( {a, b}\right) c = \left( {{ac},{bc}}\right) . \]\n\n(2)
In fact if \( \left( {a, b}\right) = d \), then the equation \( {acx} + {bcy} = {cd} \) follows by Theorem 1 from the known solvable equation \( {ax} + {by} = d \) ; consequently \( {cd} \) is a multiple of \( \left( {{ac},{bc}}\right) \), again by Theorem 1 . On the other hand, however, \( {cd} \) is a common divisor ...
Yes
Theorem 5. (Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic). Each positive number \( > 1 \) can be represented in one-and except for the order of the factors-in only one way as a product of primes.
For this it is sufficient to show that a prime \( p \) can divide a product of two numbers \( a \cdot b \) only if it divides at least one factor. But this follows from Theorem 4. Namely, if the prime number does not divide \( a \), then as a prime it cannot have any factor at all in common with \( a \), hence \( \left...
Yes
Theorem 7. If \( {x}_{1},{x}_{2},\ldots ,{x}_{n} \) forms a complete system of residues mod \( n\left( {n > 0}\right) \) , then \( a{x}_{1} + b,\ldots, a{x}_{n} + b \) is also such a system, as long as \( a \) and \( b \) are integers and \( \left( {a, n}\right) = 1 \) .
For by Theorem 6 the \( n \) numbers \( a{x}_{i} + b\left( {i = 1,2,\ldots, n}\right) \) are likewise incongruent numbers modulo \( n \) .
No
Theorem 8. If \( {a}_{1},{a}_{2},\ldots ,{a}_{n} \) are pairwise relatively prime integers, then a complete residue system mod \( A \), where \( A = {a}_{1}{a}_{2}\cdots {a}_{n} \), is obtained in the form\n\n\[ L\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) = \frac{A}{{a}_{1}}{c}_{1}{x}_{1} + \frac{A}{{a}_{2}}{c}_{2}{x}_{2}...
The number of these \( L \) values is \( \left| A\right| \) and they are incongruent \( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;A} \) since from the congruence \( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;A} \)\n\n\[ L\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) = L\left( {{x}_{1}^{\prime },\ldots ,{x}_{n}^{\prime }}\right) \left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;A}\ri...
Yes
Theorem 10. If \( a \) is a root of the integral polynomial \( f\left( x\right) {\;\operatorname{mod}\;n} \), then \( f\left( x\right) \) is divisible by \( x - a{\;\operatorname{mod}\;n} \) and conversely.
Since \( f\left( a\right) \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;n}\right) \) we have\n\n\[ f\left( x\right) \equiv f\left( x\right) - f\left( a\right) \left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;n}\right) \]\n\nHowever \( \left( {f\left( x\right) - f\left( a\right) }\right) /\left( {x - a}\right) \) is an integral polynomial, \( g\l...
Yes
Theorem 11. If \( f\left( x\right) \equiv g\left( x\right) {g}_{1}\left( x\right) \left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) \), where \( p \) is a prime, then each root of \( f\left( x\right) {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p} \) is a root of at least one of the two polynomials \( g\left( x\right) ,{g}_{1}\left( x\right) {\;\oper...
If for the integer \( a, f\left( a\right) \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) \), then\n\n\[ g\left( a\right) \cdot {g}_{1}\left( a\right) \equiv f\left( a\right) \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) .\n\nIf the prime \( p \) divides the product \( g\left( a\right) \cdot {g}_{1}\left( a\right) \)...
Yes
Theorem 12. An integral polynomial \( f\left( x\right) \) of degree \( k \) has no more than \( k \) incongruent roots modulo a prime \( p \), unless \( f\left( x\right) \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) \), in which case all coefficients are divisible by \( p \) .
The theorem is true for the polynomials of degree 0 , the constants. For if \( f\left( x\right) = {c}_{0} \) is independent of \( x \), then \( f\left( x\right) \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) \) has either 0 solutions-when \( p \) does not divide \( {c}_{0} \) -or it has more than 0 solutions-namely ev...
Yes
Theorem 13. If for two integral polynomials \( f\left( x\right) \) and \( g\left( x\right) \)\n\n\[ f\left( x\right) \cdot g\left( x\right) \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) ,\;p\text{ a prime,}\]\n\nthen either \( f\left( x\right) \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) \) or \( g\left( x\right) ...
Suppose the theorem is false, i.e., neither \( f\left( x\right) \) nor \( g\left( x\right) \) is \( \equiv 0\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p}\right) \) . Then let all terms of \( f\left( x\right) \) and \( g\left( x\right) \) which are divisible by \( p \) be omitted and two nonvanishing polynomials \( {f}_{1}\left( x\r...
Yes
Theorem 14. The congruence (6) has exactly one solution mod \( n \) if \( \left( {a, n}\right) = 1 \) .
For by Theorem 7, \( {ax} + b \) falls exactly once into the residue class 0 if \( x \) runs through a complete system of residues mod \( n \) .
No
Theorem 15. The \( k \) congruences (7) have exactly one solution determined \( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;{n}_{1}}{n}_{2}\cdots {n}_{k} \) if the moduli are pairwise relatively prime.
For with Theorem 8 in mind let us set\n\n\[ x = \frac{v}{{n}_{1}}{x}_{1} + \frac{v}{{n}_{2}}{x}_{2} + \cdots + \frac{v}{{n}_{k}}{x}_{k}\;\left( {v = {n}_{1}{n}_{2}\cdots {n}_{k}}\right) \]\n\nand determine the \( {x}_{i} \) from the congruences\n\n\[ \frac{v}{{n}_{i}}{x}_{i} \equiv {a}_{i}\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;...
Yes
Theorem 17. In every group there is exactly one element \( E \) such that\n\n\[ \n{AE} = {EA} = A \n\]\n\nfor every element of the group. \( E \) is called the unit (identity) element.
By (iv), to each \( A \) there is an \( E \) such that\n\n\[ \n{AE} = A\text{, thus also}{YAE} = {YA}\text{.} \n\]\n\n\nIf \( Y \) runs through all elements of the group, then, by (iv) this also holds for \( {YA} = B \), hence \( {BE} = B \) holds for each \( B \), and \( E \) is independent of \( B \) .\n\nMoreover th...
Yes
Theorem 22. If a prime number \( p \) divides the order \( h \) of \( \mathfrak{G} \), then there is an element of order \( p \) in \( \mathfrak{G} \) .
Let \( {C}_{1},{C}_{2},\ldots ,{C}_{h} \) be the \( h \) elements of \( \mathfrak{G} \) and let \( {c}_{1},{c}_{2},\ldots ,{c}_{h} \) be their respective orders. We form all products\n\n\[ \n{C}_{1}^{{x}_{1}}{C}_{2}^{{x}_{2}}\cdots {C}_{h}^{{x}_{h}} \n\]\n\n(8)\n\nin which each \( {x}_{i} \) runs through a complete res...
Yes
Theorem 23. Let \( h = {a}_{1} \cdot {a}_{2}\cdots {a}_{r} \) and suppose that the integers \( {a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{r} \) are pairwise relatively prime. Then each element \( C \) of \( \mathfrak{G} \) can be represented in one and only way in the form \[ C = {A}_{1} \cdot {A}_{2}\cdots {A}_{r} \] with the conditions \[...
For let \( r \) integers \( {n}_{1},\ldots ,{n}_{r} \) be determined so that \[ \frac{h}{{a}_{1}}{n}_{1} + \frac{h}{{a}_{2}}{n}_{2} + \cdots + \frac{h}{{a}_{r}}{n}_{r} = 1 \] which is always possible by Theorem 3 because of the assumption about the \( {a}_{i} \) . If we then set \[ {A}_{i} = {C}^{\left( {h/{a}_{i}}\rig...
Yes
Theorem 27. If \( p \) is a prime, then the number of different elements of \( \mathfrak{G} \) with the property\n\n\[ \n{A}^{p} = 1 \n\]\n\nis equal to \( {p}^{e} \), where \( e \) is the basis number belonging to \( p \) .
If \( {B}_{1},{B}_{2},\ldots ,{B}_{e} \) are those basis elements whose orders are powers of \( p \) , then from\n\n\[ \nA = {B}_{1}^{{x}_{1}}{B}_{2}^{{x}_{2}}\cdots {B}_{e}^{{x}_{e}}{B}_{e + 1}^{{x}_{e + 1}}\cdots {B}_{r}^{{x}_{r}}\;\text{ and }\;{A}^{p} = 1 \n\]\n\nwe have the sequence of congruences\n\n\[ \np{x}_{i}...
Yes
Theorem 28. An Abelian group \( \mathfrak{G} \) of order \( h \) is cyclic if and only if for each prime \( p \) dividing \( h \), the number of elements \( A \) with \( {A}^{p} = 1 \) is equal to \( p \) .
By the preceding theorem the condition is equivalent to: the basis number belonging to \( p \) should be \( = 1 \) . The condition is necessary. Namely if\n\n\[ C,{C}^{2},\ldots ,{C}^{h - 1},{C}^{h} = 1 \]\n\nare the \( h \) elements of \( \mathfrak{G} \), then from \( {A}^{p} = 1 \) it follows that for \( A = {C}^{x} ...
Yes
Theorem 29. The order of \( \mathfrak{G}/{\mathfrak{U}}_{p} \) is \( {p}^{e} \) if \( e \) is the basis number of \( \mathfrak{G} \) belonging to p. The group \( \mathfrak{G}/{\mathfrak{U}}_{p} \) is isomorphic to the group of elements \( C \) of \( \mathfrak{G} \) for which \( {C}^{p} = 1 \) .
In fact we see from Theorem 26 that each element \( X \) of \( \mathfrak{G} \) can be represented in the form\n\n\[ X = {B}_{1}^{{x}_{1}}{B}_{2}^{{x}_{2}}\cdots {B}_{e}^{{x}_{e}}{A}^{p} \]\n\nwhere \( {B}_{1},\ldots ,{B}_{e} \) are the basis elements belonging to the prime \( p \) and the \( e \) numbers \( {x}_{1},\ld...
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\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{A}\chi \left( A\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} h & \text{ if }\chi \text{ is the principal character,} \\ 0 & \text{ if }\chi \text{ is not the principal character,} \end{array}\right. \]
The first half of each statement is trivial, as each summand \( = 1 \) . If \( B \) is an arbitrary element, then along with \( A,{AB} \) also runs through \( h \) all elements of \( \mathfrak{G} \), hence \[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{A}\chi \left( A\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{A}\chi \left( {AB}\right) = \chi \left( ...
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Theorem 32. If \( A \) is an element of order \( f \), then \( {\chi }_{n}\left( A\right) \) is an \( f \) th root of unity. Among the \( h \) numbers \( {\chi }_{n}\left( A\right), n = 1,\ldots, h \), all \( f \) th roots of unity occur equally often, namely \( h/f \) times.
To begin with, since \( {A}^{f} = 1 : {\chi }_{n}{\left( A\right) }^{f} = {\chi }_{n}\left( {A}^{f}\right) = {\chi }_{n}\left( 1\right) = 1 \) . Thus the first part of the theorem is true. Now if \( \zeta \) is an arbitrary \( f \) th root of unity, let us consider the sum\n\n\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{h}\left...
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Theorem 36. The index of \( \mathfrak{U} \) in \( \mathfrak{G} \) is \( j = \left| {{r}_{11} \cdot {r}_{22}\cdots {r}_{nn}}\right| \) .
For the proof we must determine the maximum number of elements which can exist in \( \mathfrak{G} \) such that no two differ by a factor in \( \mathfrak{U} \) . We first show that an element\n\n\[ \n{B}_{1}^{{x}_{1}}{B}_{2}^{{x}_{2}}\cdots {B}_{n}^{{x}_{n}} \]\n\nwhere all \( \left| {x}_{i}\right| < {r}_{ii} \), belong...
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Theorem 37. If a torsion-free Abelian group \( \mathfrak{G} \) has a finite basis of \( n \) elements \( {B}_{1},\ldots ,{B}_{n} \), then \( n \) is the maximal number of independent elements of \( \mathfrak{G} \) , independent of the choice of basis.
Since the \( {B}_{1},\ldots ,{B}_{n} \) are independent in any case, there are \( n \) independent elements in \( \mathfrak{G} \) and thus we need only show that \( n + 1 \) elements in \( \mathfrak{G} \) are not independent. In fact, between \( n + 1 \) arbitrary elements\n\n\[ \n{A}_{i} = {B}_{1}^{{c}_{i1}} \cdot {B}...
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Theorem 38. From a basis \( {B}_{1},\ldots ,{B}_{n} \) of a torsion-free Abelian group ( \( \mathfrak{H} \) one can obtain all systems of bases \( {B}_{1}^{\prime },\ldots ,{B}_{n}^{\prime } \) of \( \mathfrak{G} \) in the form\n\n\[ \n{B}_{i}^{\prime } = {B}_{1}^{{a}_{i1}}{B}_{2}^{{a}_{i2}}\cdots {B}_{n}^{{a}_{in}},\;...
To begin with, the \( {B}_{i}^{\prime } \) always form a basis. To see this we need only show that the \( {B}_{i} \) can be represented through the \( {B}_{i}^{\prime } \) . The equation\n\n\[ \n{B}_{m} = {B}_{1}^{\prime {x}_{1}} \cdot {B}_{2}^{\prime {x}_{2}}\cdots {B}_{n}^{\prime {x}_{n}} \n\]\n\nis satisfied if the ...
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Theorem 39. If \( \mathfrak{G} \) is a torsion-free Abelian group with a finite basis \( {B}_{1},\ldots ,{B}_{n} \) , \( \mathfrak{U} \) a subgroup of finite index \( j \), then \( \mathfrak{U} \) also has a finite basis \( {U}_{1},\ldots ,{U}_{n} \), and the determinant \( \left| {a}_{ik}\right| \) in the \( n \) equa...
The last assertion holds for the special basis mentioned in Theorem 36. The passage from the special basis \( {U}^{\prime } \) to an arbitrary basis \( U \) is done by Theorem 38 using an array of exponents with determinant \( \pm 1 \) . However, in the passage from \( B \) to \( U \) we obviously obtain an array of ex...
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Theorem 40. If \( \mathfrak{G} \) is a group with a finite basis \( {B}_{1},\ldots ,{B}_{m} \), then a subgroup \( \mathfrak{U} \) is of finite index if and only if a power of each element of \( \mathfrak{G} \) belongs to \( \mathfrak{U} \) .
If the \( {N}_{h} \) th power \( \left( {{N}_{h} > 0}\right) \) of \( {B}_{h} \) belongs to \( \mathfrak{U} \) and if we set\n\n\[ N = {N}_{1}{N}_{2}\cdots {N}_{m} \]\n\nthen \( {B}_{h}^{N} \) also belongs to \( \mathfrak{U} \) and consequently the \( N \) th power of each element likewise belongs to \( \mathfrak{U} \)...
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Theorem 42. Suppose \( \left( {{n}_{1},{n}_{2}}\right) = 1, n = {n}_{1} \cdot {n}_{2} \) . Then\n\n\[ \Re \left( n\right) = \Re \left( {n}_{1}\right) \cdot \Re \left( {n}_{2}\right) \]
To prove this we assign to each element \( A \) of \( \Re \left( n\right) \) a pair of elements \( {C}_{1} \) from \( \mathfrak{R}\left( {n}_{1}\right) \) and \( {C}_{2} \) from \( \mathfrak{R}\left( {n}_{2}\right) \) as follows: If \( a \) is a number in \( A \), then choose any two numbers \( {c}_{1},{c}_{2} \) accor...
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Theorem 43. If \( p \) is a prime, then the group \( \mathfrak{R}\left( p\right) \) of residue classes mod \( p \) is a cyclic group of order \( p - 1 \) .
By Theorem 27, we need only show that if \( q \) is a prime dividing \( p - 1 \) , then the number of classes \( A \) with \( {A}^{q} = 1 \) is equal to \( q \) (by Theorem 22 it must be at least \( q \) ). However, the number of these classes \( \mathrm{A} \) is identical with the number of integers \( a \) which are ...
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Theorem 45. The groups \( \Re \left( 2\right) \) and \( \Re \left( 4\right) \) are cyclic. If \( \alpha \geq 3 \) then the group \( \Re \left( {2}^{\alpha }\right) \) of order \( h = \varphi \left( {2}^{\alpha }\right) = {2}^{\alpha - 1} \) has exactly two basis classes. One is of order 2, the other of order \( h/2 = {...
The statements are trivial for the moduli 2 and 4 . Thus suppose \( \alpha \geq 3 \) . The group of classes \( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;{2}^{\alpha }} \) has order \( h = \varphi \left( {2}^{\alpha }\right) = {2}^{\alpha - 1} \) . The number of incongruent solutions of \( {x}^{2} \equiv 1\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;{2}...
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Theorem 47. With odd \( q \) and \( a \), the congruence \( {x}^{q} \equiv a\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;{2}^{\alpha }}\right) \) always has exactly one solution.
The first part \( \left( {q\text{odd}}\right) \) is proved exactly as above in Case 1. Since, by Theorem 45, the classes \( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;{2}^{\alpha }}\left( {\alpha \geq 3}\right) \) can be represented in the form \( {B}_{1}^{{a}_{1}}{B}_{2}^{{a}_{2}} \) , where \( {B}_{1}^{2} = {B}_{2}^{{2}^{\alpha - 2}} = ...
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Theorem 48. Two arbitrary nonzero polynomials \( {f}_{1}\left( x\right) \) and \( {f}_{2}\left( x\right) \) over \( k \) have a uniquely determined greatest common divisor \( d\left( x\right) \), that is, there is a polynomial \( d\left( x\right) \) with leading coefficient 1, such that\n\n\[ d\left( x\right) \left| {{...
The proof is well known from elementary algebra, yet no importance is attached there to the nature of the numerical coefficients which appear. For this reason we reproduce quite briefly a proof based on the proof of the analogous fact for rational numbers (Theorems 1 and 2). Among the polynomials\n\n\[ L\left( x\right)...
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Theorem 49. If a polynomial \( f\left( x\right) \), irreducible over \( k \), has a common zero \( x = \alpha \) with a polynomial \( g\left( x\right) \) over \( k \), then \( f\left( x\right) \) is a divisor of \( g\left( x\right) \) and hence all zeros of \( f\left( x\right) \) are zeros of \( g\left( x\right) \) .
For \( \left( {f\left( x\right), g\left( x\right) }\right) \) is at least divisible by \( x - \alpha \) and thus not \( = 1 \) . On the other hand \( f\left( x\right) \) has no factors over \( k \) other than \( {cf}\left( x\right) \) . Consequently \( \left( {f\left( x\right), g\left( x\right) }\right) = {cf}\left( x\...
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