Gauss decomposition for Chevalley groups, revisited

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In the 1960's Noboru Iwahori and Hideya Matsumoto‎, ‎Eiichi‎ ‎Abe and‎ ‎Kazuo Suzuki‎, ‎and Michael Stein discovered that Chevalley groups‎ ‎$G=G(\Phi,R)$ over a semilocal ring admit remarkable Gauss‎ ‎decomposition $G=TUU^-U$‎, ‎where $T=T(\Phi,R)$ is a split maximal‎ ‎torus‎, ‎whereas $U=U(\Phi,R)$ and $U^-=U^-(\Phi,R)$ are unipotent‎ ‎radicals of two opposite Borel subgroups $B=B(\Phi,R)$ and
‎$B^-=B^-(\Phi,R)$ containing $T$‎. ‎It follows from the classical work‎ ‎of Hyman Bass and Michael Stein that for classical groups Gauss‎ ‎decomposition holds under weaker assumptions such as $sr(R)=1$ or‎ ‎$asr(R)=1$‎. ‎Later the third author noticed that condition‎ ‎$sr(R)=1$ is necessary for Gauss decomposition‎. ‎Here‎, ‎we show that‎ ‎a slight variation of Tavgen's rank reduction theorem implies that‎ ‎for the elementary group $E=E(\Phi,R)$ condition $sr(R)=1$ is also‎ M‎sufficient for Gauss decomposition‎. ‎In other words‎, ‎$E=HUU^-U$‎, ‎where $H=H(\Phi,R)=T\cap E$‎. ‎This surprising result shows that‎ ‎stronger conditions on the ground ring‎, ‎such as being semi-local‎, ‎$asr(R)=1$‎, ‎$sr(R,\Lambda)=1$‎, ‎etc.‎, ‎were only needed to guarantee‎ ‎that for simply connected groups $G=E$‎, ‎rather than to verify the‎ ‎Gauss decomposition itself‎.

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  • Receive Date: 24 September 2011
  • Revise Date: 12 October 2011
  • Accept Date: 12 October 2011
  • Published Online: 01 March 2012

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