Algebra seminar

Nikolai Vavilov, St. Petersburg

“Structure of Chevalley groups: the proof from the book”

Joint with Mikhail Gavrilovich, Sergei Nikolenko and Alexander Luzgarev. New generation proofs of normal subgroup structure, commutator formulae, and the like, over an ARBITRARY commutative ring are given, based on the study of minimal modules of exceptional groups.