There are several examples of groups for which any pair of commutators can be written such that both of them have a common entry, and one can look for a similar property for n-tuples of commutators. Here we answer, for simple algebraic groups over any field, the weaker question, under which conditio
On almost strong approximation for algebraic groups
β Scribed by Wai Kiu Chan; J.S. Hsia
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Volume
- 254
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8693
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β¦ Synopsis
If G is a simply connected reductive group defined over a number field k and β is the set of all infinite places of k, then G has strong approximation with respect to β if and only if the archimedean part of any k-simple component of the adΓ¨le group G A is non-compact. Using affine Bruhat-Tits buildings we formulate an almost strong approximation (ASAP) for groups of compact type, extending the version treated in [J.S. Hsia, M. JΓΆchner, Invent. Math. 129 (1997) 471-487]. The validity of ASAP for G(k) is proved for all classical groups of compact type whose Tits indices over k are not 2 A (d) n with d 3. Application to genera of integral forms (similar to Gross' notion of Z-models [B. Gross, Invent. Math. 124 (1996) 263-279]) is given with attendant results on integral representations of positive definite quadratic, hermitian or skew-hermitian forms.
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