Decomposition of transvections: A theme with variations

DOI10.1023/A:1007853629389zbMath0944.20031OpenAlexW1966249881MaRDI QIDQ1970563

Publication date: 29 June 2000

Published in: $K$-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007853629389

zbMATH Keywords

general linear groups symplectic groups elementary subgroups orthogonal groups unitary groups centrality Steinberg groups transvections net subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects) (18F25) Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35) Steinberg groups and (K_2) (19C99)

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