Quasi-split group
{{Short description|Linear algebraic group}}
In mathematics, a quasi-split group over a field is a reductive group with a Borel subgroup defined over the field. Simply connected quasi-split groups over a field correspond to actions of the absolute Galois group on a Dynkin diagram.
Examples
All split groups (those with a split maximal torus) are quasi-split. These correspond to quasi-split groups where the action of the Galois group on the Dynkin diagram is trivial.
{{harvtxt|Lang|1956}} showed that all simple algebraic groups over finite fields are quasi-split.
Over the real numbers, the quasi-split groups include the split groups and the complex groups, together with the orthogonal groups On,n+2, the unitary groups SUn,n and SUn,n+1, and the form of E6 with signature 2.
References
- {{Citation | last1=Lang | first1=Serge | author1-link=Serge Lang | title=Algebraic groups over finite fields | jstor=2372673 |mr=0086367 | year=1956 | journal=American Journal of Mathematics | issn=0002-9327 | volume=78 | pages=555–563 | doi=10.2307/2372673}}