Longer nilpotent series for classical unipotent subgroups

Abstract

In studying nilpotent groups, the lower central series and other variations can be used to construct an associated ${\mathbb{Z}}^{+}$-graded Lie ring, which is a powerful method to inspect a group. Indeed, the process can be generalized substantially by introducing ${\mathbb{N}}^d$-graded Lie rings. We compute the adjoint refinements of the lower central series of the unipotent subgroups of the classical Chevalley groups over the field $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ of rank $d$. We prove that, for all the classical types, this characteristic filter is a series of length $\Theta (d^2)$ with nearly all factors having $p$-bounded order.

13 pages, 3 figures

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• Finding direct product decompositions in polynomial time
• Division, adjoints, and dualities of bilinear maps