Characteristic-two classification conjecture for maximal 2-spec spaces

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Let K\mathbb{K} be a field of characteristic 22 with more than 22 elements. Let V\mathcal{V} be a 2‾\overline{2}-spec subspace of M⁡n(K)\operatorname{M}_n(\mathbb{K}), with n≥3n\geq3. Let NT⁡r(K)\operatorname{NT}_r(\mathbb{K}) denote the strictly upper-triangular matrices, let sl2(K)\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{K}) denote the trace-zero 2×22\times2 matrices, let H(K)\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{K}) be the exceptional 77-dimensional 1‾\overline{1}-spec subspace of M⁡4(K)\operatorname{M}_4(\mathbb{K}) defined in the paper, and let ∨\vee denote the block upper-triangular join. Characteristic-two maximal 2-spec classification conjecture. The following assertions hold: (a) If n∉{4,6}n\notin\{4,6\} and dim⁡V=(n2)+3\dim\mathcal{V}=\binom{n}{2}+3, then there is a unique p∈{0,…,n−2}p\in\{0,\ldots,n-2\} such that

V≃KIn⊕(NT⁡p(K)∨sl2(K)∨NT⁡n−p−2(K)).\mathcal{V}\simeq \mathbb{K}I_n\oplus\bigl(\operatorname{NT}_p(\mathbb{K})\vee\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{K})\vee\operatorname{NT}_{n-p-2}(\mathbb{K})\bigr).

(b) If n=4n=4 and dim⁡V=(n2)+4\dim\mathcal{V}=\binom{n}{2}+4, then

V≃sl2(K)∨sl2(K).\mathcal{V}\simeq\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{K})\vee\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{K}).

(c) If n=6n=6, exactly one of the following holds: for a unique p∈{0,…,4}p\in\{0,\ldots,4\},

V≃KI6⊕(NT⁡p(K)∨sl2(K)∨NT⁡4−p(K)),\mathcal{V}\simeq\mathbb{K}I_6\oplus\bigl(\operatorname{NT}_p(\mathbb{K})\vee\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{K})\vee\operatorname{NT}_{4-p}(\mathbb{K})\bigr),

we have V≃sl2(K)∨H(K)\mathcal{V}\simeq\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{K})\vee\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{K}), or we have

V≃H(K)∨sl2(K).\mathcal{V}\simeq\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{K})\vee\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{K}).

The paper presents these as plausible characteristic-two classification conjectures, extending the preceding dimension bounds and accounting for the exceptional 4×44\times4 space H(K)\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{K}); no resolution is supplied in the source.

References

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Clément de Seguins Pazzis, “Spaces of matrices with few eigenvalues”, arXiv:1302.0301 (2013).

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