Bounds for Behrend's conjecture on the canonical reduction

Authors
Publication date 2008
Journal International Mathematics Research Notices
Volume | Issue number 2008
Pages (from-to) rnn045
Number of pages 17
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract We prove Behrend's conjecture on the rationality of the canonical reduction of principal bundles and reductive group schemes for classical groups and give new bounds for the conjecture for exceptional groups. However, we find a counterexample in the case of G2-bundles in characteristic 2.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnn045
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