The Zassenhaus decomposition for the orthogonal group: properties and applications.
We study the transience of algebraic varieties in linear groups. In particular, we show that a “non elementary” random walk in escapes exponentially fast from every proper algebraic subvariety. We also treat the case where the random walk takes place in the real points of a semisimple split algebraic group and show such a result for a wide family of random walks.As an application, we prove that generic subgroups (in some sense) of linear groups are Zariski dense.
We develop a new approach of extension calculus in the category of strict polynomial functors, based on Troesch complexes. We obtain new short elementary proofs of numerous classical -computations as well as new results. In particular, we get a cohomological version of the “fundamental theorems” from classical invariant theory for for big enough (and we give a conjecture for smaller values of ). We also study the “twisting spectral sequence” converging to the extension groups between the...
For the Grothendieck group of a split simple linear algebraic group, the twisted γ-filtration provides a useful tool for constructing torsion elements in -rings of twisted flag varieties. In this paper, we construct a non-trivial torsion element in the γ-ring of a complete flag variety twisted by means of a PGO-torsor. This generalizes the construction in the HSpin case previously obtained by Zainoulline.