Witzel, Stefan (2011)
Finiteness Properties of Chevalley Groups over the Ring of (Laurent) Polynomials over a Finite Field.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Finiteness Properties of Chevalley Groups over the Ring of (Laurent) Polynomials over a Finite Field | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Gramlich, PD dr. Ralf ; Bux, Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe ; Joswig, Prof. Dr. Michael | ||||
Date: | 7 February 2011 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 2 February 2011 | ||||
Abstract: | A group G is of type F_n if there is a K(G,1) complex that has finite n-skeleton. The property F_1 is equivalent to being finitely generated and the property F_2 is equivalent to being finitely presented. The finiteness length of G is the maximal n for which G is of type F_n if it exists and is infinite otherwise. A rich source of groups with finite finiteness length consists of S-arithmetic groups in positive characteristic, that is, groups of the form H(O_S) where H is an algebraic group defined over a global function field k and O_S is the ring of S-integers for a finite set S of places of k. In this thesis we determine the finiteness length of the groups H(O_S) where H is an F_q-isotropic, connected, noncommutative, almost simple F_q-group and O_S is one of F_q[t], F_q[t^{-1}], and F_q[t,t^{-1}]. That is, k = F_q(t) and S contains one or both of the places s_0 and s_∞ corresponding to the polynomial p(t) = t respectively to the point at infinity. The statement is that the finiteness length of H(O_S) is n-1 if S contains one of the two places and is 2n-1 if it contains both places, where n is the F_q-rank of H. For example, the group SL_3(F_q[t,t^{-1}]) is of type F_3 but not of type F_4, a fact that was previously unknown. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-24234 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 510 Mathematics | ||||
Divisions: | 04 Department of Mathematics 04 Department of Mathematics > Algebra |
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Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2011 06:59 | ||||
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2012 11:59 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/2423 | ||||
PPN: | 23107638X | ||||
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