Characteristic-two conjecture for non-descending-hereditary reductive pairs

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Let (G,H)(G,H) be a reductive pair of algebraic groups in characteristic pp. The subgroup HH is GG-descending hereditary (or GG-dh) if, for every connected subgroup KK of HH, GG-complete reducibility of KK implies HH-complete reducibility of KK.

Characteristic-two conjecture. If HH is non-GG-dh, then p=2p=2.

This conjecture proposes that failure of descending hereditary behaviour for a reductive pair can occur only in characteristic two. The source presents it as a speculation based on empirical evidence, and does not state a resolution.

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Alastair J. Litterick, David I. Stewart and Adam R. Thomas, “Complete reducibility and subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups”, arXiv:2209.11310 (2023).

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