Thursday, January 26, 2017 1:30 pm
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1:30 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
Ehsaan Hossain, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Solvable algebraic groups"
A linear algebraic group is a Zariski-closed group of matrices. We'll study the Lie-Kolchin Theorem that every connected, solvable linear algebraic group G is conjugate to a group of upper-triangular matrices, and see how it is applied to show that $G=N\rtimes T$ where N is a nilpotent group and T is a "maximal torus" in G.
MC 5413