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JOURNALS // Sibirskie Èlektronnye Matematicheskie Izvestiya [Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports] // Archive

Sib. Èlektron. Mat. Izv., 2018 Volume 15, Pages 797–800 (Mi semr953)

Mathematical logic, algebra and number theory

On conjugacy of $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroups of Borovik subgroup of group $E_8(q)$

A. V. Konyginab

a N.N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, 16 S.Kovalevskaya Str., 620990, Ekaterinburg, Russia
b Ural State University, 19 Mira Str., 620002, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Abstract: Let $p \geq 7$ be a prime, $q = p^n$, where $n \in {\mathbb N}$, and $k$ be the algebraic closure of the field $\mathbb{F}_q$. Let $G \cong E_8(k)$ be a simple linear algebraic group of type $E_8$ over the field $k$, and $\sigma : G \rightarrow G$ be a Steinberg endomorphism of $G$ such that $G_{\sigma} \cong E_8(q)$. Let $M \cong (\mathrm{Alt}_5 \times \mathrm{Sym}_6).2$ be a Borovik subgroup of the group $G$ and $M < G_{\sigma}$. An open question is whether the normal $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroup of $M$ and a diagonal $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroup of $\mathrm{soc}(M)$ are conjugated in $G_\sigma$ or not.
In 1998, D. Frey investigated conjugated classes of $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroups in $E_8(\mathbb{C})$. But, description of the classes with zero-dimensional centralizers was not obtained. In particular, it was not clear are $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroups of a Borovik subgroup of $E_8(\mathbb{C})$ with zero-dimensional centralizers conjugated in $E_8(\mathbb{C})$ or not. This problem was solved by G. Lusztig in 2003. Actually, the Lusztig result is more general and concerns regular homorphisms from $\mathrm{Alt}_5$ to connected reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field $k'$ of characteristic $p$ where $p=0$ or $p \geq 7$. The Lusztig result implies, in particular, that $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroups of a Borovik subgroup of $E_8(k')$ with zero-dimensional centralizers are conjugated in $E_8(k')$. We use the Lusztig result to prove that the normal $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroup of the group $M$ is conjugated with a diagonal $\mathrm{Alt}_5$-subgroup of $\mathrm{soc}\,(M)$ in $G_{\sigma^m}$ where $m \leq 6$.

Keywords: $E_8(q)$, Borovik subgroup, subgroup $\mathrm{Alt}_5$, conjugated class.

UDC: 512.542.52

MSC: 20D05

Received January 20, 2018, published July 27, 2018

DOI: 10.17377/semi.2018.15.065



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