Characteristic-two conjecture for non-descending-hereditary reductive pairs
Characteristic-two conjecture for non-descending-hereditary reductive pairs
Let be a reductive pair of algebraic groups in characteristic . The subgroup is -descending hereditary (or -dh) if, for every connected subgroup of , -complete reducibility of implies -complete reducibility of .
Characteristic-two conjecture. If is non--dh, then .
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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