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SUMMARY:Embeddings of smooth affine varieties into linear algebraic groups
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DESCRIPTION:Immanuel van Santen (Unibasel)\nThis is joint work with Peter 
 Feller. There are the following fundamental questions concerning embedding
 s from an object Z into another object X:\n\n    1.    (Existence) D
 oes there exists an embedding of Z into X?\n    2.    (Uniqueness) H
 aving two embeddings f\, g of Z into X\, does there exists an automorphism
  ψ of X such that g =  ψ ◦ f?\n\nIn this talk\, we will mainly focus 
 on the first question in the category of affine varieties\, where Z is smo
 oth and X is a\nlinear algebraic group. Amongst other things\, we will dis
 cuss the following result.\n\nTheorem. For every simple linear algebraic g
 roup G and every smooth affine variety Z with dim G > 2 dim Z + 1\, there
  exists an embedding of Z into G.\n\nThe proof is based upon parametric tr
 ansversality results for flexible affine varieties due to Kaliman. We will
  also discuss the following result.\n\nProposition. For every non-finite a
 lgebraic group G and every d ≥ dim G / 2\, there exists an irreducible s
 mooth affine variety of dimension d that does not admit an embedding into 
 G.\n\nThis proposition implies the optimality of the above existence theor
 em up to a possible improvement of the dimension bound by one. It’s proo
 f is an adaptation of a Chow-group-based argument due to Bloch\, Murthy\, 
 and Szpiro for the affine space.
LOCATION:MA B1 11 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MA%20B1%2011
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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