Conjecture on radical maximal subalgebras of type E_8 in characteristic five

Let GG be an algebraic group of type E8E_8 with Lie algebra g=Lie(G)\mathfrak{g}=\operatorname{Lie}(G) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 55. Let MM be a maximal subalgebra with nonzero radical, and let w\mathfrak{w} denote the maximal subalgebra defined in Theorem 4.3. The classification conjecture. Every such MM is either conjugate to w\mathfrak{w} under the adjoint action of GG, is the Lie algebra of a maximal parabolic subgroup PP of GG, or is the centraliser of a toral element tgt\in\mathfrak{g}. In the last case, M=Lie(Gt)M=\operatorname{Lie}(G_t) and GtG_t is semisimple of type A4A4A_4A_4. This proposes a complete description of maximal subalgebras with nonzero radical in this case; the statement is presented as a conjecture, with no resolution supplied in the source.

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Thomas Purslow, “Maximal subalgebras of the exceptional Lie algebras in low characteristic”, arXiv:1803.06357 (2018).

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