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