Abstract
We prove that if G(R) = Gπ(Φ , R) (E(R) = Eπ(Φ , R)) is an (elementary) Chevalley group of rank > 1 , R is a local ring (with 12 for the root systems A2, Bl, Cl, F4, G2 and with 13 for G2) , then the group G(R) (or (E(R)) is regularly bi-interpretable with the ring R. As a consequence of this theorem, we show that the class of all Chevalley groups over local rings (with the listed restrictions) is elementarily definable, i.e., if for an arbitrary group H we have H≡ Gπ(Φ , R) , then there exists a ring R′≡ R such that H≅ Gπ(Φ , R′) .
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 64 |
| Journal | European Journal of Mathematics |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Funding
Our sincere thanks go to Eugene Plotkin for very useful discussions regarding various aspects of this work and permanent attention to it.
Keywords
- Chevalley groups
- Elementary definability
- Local rings
- Regular bi-interpretability