Complete Reductibility of Infinite Groups
- 1 January 1964
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Mathematical Society in Canadian Journal of Mathematics
- Vol. 16, 267-274
- https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-1964-026-3
Abstract
The theorems of the present paper deal with conditions which are necessary and sufficient in order that a solvable or nilpotent infinite group should have a completely reducible matrix representation over a given algebraically closed field.It is known (17) that a locally nilpotent group of matrices is always solvable. Thus the first theorem of the present paper is a partial generalization of Theorem 1 of (16), which states:If G is a locally nilpotent subgroup of the full linear group GL(n, P) over a perfect field P, then G is completely reducible if and only if each matrix of G is diagonizable (by a similarity transformation over some extension field of P).Keywords
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