finitistic dimension of properly stratified algebras abstract we prove that the finitistic dimension of a properly stratified algebra having a simple preserving duality and for which every tilting module is cotilting equals twice the projective dimension of the characteristic tilting module as a corollary we get that the global dimension of a quasi hereditary algebra with duality equals twice the projective dimension of the characteristic tilting module as another corollary we obtain an affirmative answer to the conjecture of erdmann and parker finally we calculate the finitistic dimension of the blocks of certain parabolic generalizations of the category o

reductive groups the loop grassmannian and the springer resolution in this paper we prove equivalences of categories relating the derived category of a block of the category of representations of a connected reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p bigger than the coxeter number and a derived category of equivariant coherent sheaves on the springer resolution or a parabolic counterpart in the case of the principal block combined with previous results this provides a modular version of celebrated constructions due to arkhipov bezrukavnikov ginzburg for lusztig s quantum groups at a root of unity as an application we prove a graded version of a conjecture of finkelberg mirkovic describing the principal block in terms of mixed perverse sheaves on the dual affine grassmannian and deduce a new proof of lusztig s conjecture in large characteristic

on the good filtration dimension of weyl modules for a linear algebraic group let g be a linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p whose corresponding root system is irreducible in this paper we calculate the weyl filtration di mension of the induced g modules and the simple g modules l fora regular weight we use this to calculate some ext groups of the form ext extl l and ext where are regular and is the weyl module of highest weight we then deduce the projective dimensions and injective dimensions for l and for a regular weight in associated generalised schur algebras we also deduce the global dimension of the schur algebras for gln s n r when p n and for s mp p with m an integer

cohomology of infinitesimal and discrete groups an infinitesimal algebraic group over a field k is a connected algebraic group scheme whose coordinate ring is a finite dimension al k algebra if one begins with a reductive algebraic group g defined over fp then one has a close relationship between the representation theory of g that of its infinitesimal subgroups g defined as the kernels of the frobenius endomorphisms rr g g and that of its finite chevalley subgroups g fq of fq rational points q pd a basic theorem of cline et al i 9 theorem 6 6 relates the cohomology of g in a rational representation to that of the finite groups g fq related work of cline et al 6 and of the authors 1 16 relates the cohomology of g to that of its infinitesimal subgroups a determination of the cohomology of the first infinitesimal subgroup g 1 of g with trivial coefficients has enabled the authors in 14 to make certain explicit cohomology calculations for the finite groups g fq with certain nontrivial coefficients in this paper we continue our study of infinitesimal subgroups of simple algebraic groups by proving various qualitative properties of their cohomology and by extending our computational knowledge in particular we provide a computation which applies in a range of degrees to chevalley groups over the prime field we also investigate the cohomology of infinitesimal subgroups of nilpotent groups enabling us for example to determine the cohomology of their lie algebras in certain cases we apply this lie algebra cohomology computation to determine the integral cohomology of various torsion free nilpotent groups modulo small prime torsion thereby extending a theorem of dwyer 12 in more detail the paper begins in sect 1 with a spectral sequence converging to the cohomology of the first infinitesimal subgroup g which was previously studied in 14 from this spectral sequence it easily follows that h g1 m is a noetherian h g1 k module for each finite dimensional rational gl module m we then apply the work of andersen and jantzen 1 on the gl cohomology of induced modules to obtain the analogous result for the second infinitesimal subgroup gz our analysis also permits a determination of the generic

varieties of nilpotent elements for simple lie algebras i good primes let g be a simple algebraic group over k or fp where p is good set g lie g given r and a faithful restricted representation g gl v one can define a variety of nilpotent elements nr g x g x r 0 in this paper we determine this variety when is an irreducible representation of minimal dimension or the adjoint representation

on schur algebras and related algebras ii this paper is a continuation of 7 the purpose of 7 was to set up in the context of reductive algebraic groups a theory of generalized schur algebras a special case of our construction gives the schur algebras s n r studied extensively in lo we concentrate here on the schur algebras themselves and show that our construction yields new results in their representation theory by means of the schur functor see 10 chap 6 we obtain new results in the representation theory of the symmetric groups the main results are as follows the schur algebras s n r defined over a principal ideal domain r have finite global dimension see also 1 i over a field or complete valuation ring r every finitely generated projective s n r module has a weyl module filtration we prove the irreducibility of the socle of certain weyl modules see also 15 we describe a connection between weights of projective indecomposable modules for the schur algebras in terms of the involution on irreducible representations of symmetric groups given by tensoring with the sign representation we show that over a complete valuation ring or a field every young module for a symmetric group has a specht series in particular the projective indecomposables have specht series finally we show that for r n and a complete valuation ring or field r the blocks of the schur algebra s n r are given by the rule embodied in nakayama s conjecture the notations and conventions are as in the first part of this work 7

approximation of fuzzy numbers by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers preserving the expected interval the problem to find the nearest trapezoidal approximation of a fuzzy number with respect to a well known metric which preserves the expected interval of the fuzzy number is completely solved the previously proposed approximation operators are improved so as to always obtain a trapezoidal fuzzy number properties of this new trapezoidal approximation operator are studied

infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups and cohomology this is the first of two papers in which we determine the spectrum of the cohomology algebra of infinitesimal group schemes over a field k of characteristic p 0 whereas sfb is concerned with detection of cohomology classes the present paper introduces the graded algebra k vr g of functions on the scheme of infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups of height r on an affine group scheme g and demonstrates that this algebra is essentially a retract of h g k provided that g is an infinitesimal group scheme of height kr this work is a continuation of f s in which the existence of certain universal extension classes was established thereby enabling the proof of finite generation of h g k for any finite group scheme g over k the role of the scheme of infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups of g was foreshadowed in f p where h g 1 k was shown to be isomorphic to the coordinate algebra of the scheme of p nilpotent elements of g lie g for g a smooth reductive group g 1 the first frobenius kernel of g and p char k sufficiently large indeed p nilpotent elements of g correspond precisely to infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups of g 1 much of our effort in this present paper involves the analysis of the restriction of the universal extension classes to infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups in 1 we construct the affine scheme vr g of homomorphisms from ga r to g which we call the scheme of infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups of height r in g in the special case r 1 this is the scheme of p nilpotent elements of the p restricted lie algebra lie g for various classical groups g vr g is the scheme of r tuples of p nilpotent pairwise commuting elements of lie g more generally an embedding g c gln determines a closed embedding of vr g into the scheme of r tuples of p nilpotent pairwise commuting elements of gl1 lie gln the relationship between k vr g the coordinate algebra of vr g and h g k is introduced in theorem 1 14 a natural homomorphism of graded k algebras

the global dimension of schur algebras for gl2 and gl3 abstract we first define the notion of good filtration dimension and weyl filtration dimension in a quasi hereditary algebra we calculate these dimensions explicitly for all irreducible modules in sl 2 and sl 3 we use these to show that the global dimension of a schur algebra for gl 2 and gl 3 is twice the good filtration dimension to do this for sl 3 we give an explicit filtration of the modules by modules of the form f l where is a dominant weight and is p restricted

extensions for frobenius kernels 1 1 let g be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p 0 for r 1 let gr be the rth frobenius kernel of g it is well known that the representations for g1 are equivalent to the restricted representations for lie g historically the cohomology for frobenius kernels has been best understood for large primes friedlander and parshall fp first computed the cohomology ring h g1 k for p 3 h 1 where h is the coxeter number of the underlying root system they proved that the cohomology ring can be identified with the coordinate algebra of the nullcone andersen and jantzen aj later verified this fact for p h furthermore they generalized this calculation by looking at h g1 h0 where h0 indb for p h their results had some restrictions on the type of root system involved kumar lauritzen and thomsen klt removed the restrictions on the root systems through the use of frobenius splittings the cohomology ring h g1 k modulo nilpotents can be identified in general with the coordinate algebra of the restricted nullcone n1 x lie g x p 0 for good primes nakano parshall and vella npv proved that this variety is irreducible and can be identified with the closure of some richardson orbit recently carlson lin nakano and parshall clnp have given an explicit description of n1 these recent results provide some indication that one can systematically study extensions of frobenius kernels for small primes by using general formulas which exhibit generic behavior for large primes

support varieties for infinitesimal group schemes the representation theory of a connected smooth affine group scheme over a field k of characteristic p 0 is faithfully captured by that of its family of frobenius kernels such frobenius kernels are examples of infinitesimal group schemes affine group schemes g whose coordinate hopf algebra k g is a finite dimensional local k algebra this paper presents a study of the cohomology algebra h g k of an arbitrary infinitesimal group scheme over k we provide a geometric determination of the cohomological support variety cgl spec h g k analogous to that given by d quillen for the cohomology of finite groups q we further study finite dimensional rational g modules m for arbitrary infinitesimal group schemes g over k in a manner initiated by j alperin and l evens a e and j carlson ci for finite groups we consider the variety igim c igi of the ideal im ker hev g k ext m m and provide a geometric description of this variety which is analogous to that given by g avrunin and l scott for finite dimensional modules for finite groups a s this paper is a continuation of our recent work establishing the finite generation of h g k f s and investigating the infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups of g s f b earlier work of e friedlander and b parshall fp1 fp2 fp3 fp4 and j jantzen ji concerning the cohomology of restricted lie algebras are forerunners of the results presented here finite dimensional restricted lie algebras are in 1 1 correspondence with infinitesimal group schemes of height 1 our main theorems theorems 5 2 and 6 7 below when restricted to infinitesimal group schemes of height 1 significantly strengthen previously known cohomological information for restricted lie algebras an interesting aspect of our work is the extent to which infinitesimal 1 parameter subgroups v g a r g for infinitesimal group schemes g of height r play the role of elementary abelian p subgroups and their generalizations shifted subgroups for finite groups indeed much of our effort is dedicated to proving that cohomology classes are detected modulo nilpotence by such 1 parameter subgroups this is first done in 2 for unipotent infinitesimal group schemes using an induction argument made possible by a structure theorem presented in 1 this structure theorem is the analogue in our context of a theorem of j p serre characterizing elementary abelian p groups s

a quasi newton method using a nonquadratic model abstract most quasi newton methods in common use for function minimisation use a quadratic model to approximate the underlying objective function at the current estimate of the minimum in this paper we describe new minimisation algorithms derived by replacing the quadratic model with a polynomial type model involving a free parameter which is determined implicitly by means of information about the objective function we show how this information may be efficiently utilised in an optimisation method of quasi newton type numerical tests were carried out to demonstrate the performance of the new algorithms in comparison to the standard bfgs method

second cohomology groups for frobenius kernels and related structures abstract let g be a simple simply connected affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p for an odd prime p let b be a borel subgroup of g and u be its unipotent radical in this paper we determine the second cohomology groups of b and its frobenius kernels for all simple b modules we also consider the standard induced modules obtained by inducing a simple b module to g and compute all second cohomology groups of the frobenius kernels of g for these induced modules also included is a calculation of the second ordinary lie algebra cohomology group of lie u with coefficients in k

a note on the adjoint action of a semisimple group on the coordinate algebra of an infinitesimal subgroup abstract let g be a connected semisimple simply connected algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k of positive characteristic the action of g on itself by conjugation induces on the coordinate algebra k g and hence on the coordinate algebra k g r of the infinitesimal subgroup g r the structure of a rational g module in the recent paper 3 by bendel nakano pillen and sobaje the authors ask whether the tensor product of k g r with the rth steinberg module st r has a good filtration here we show that this is the case provided that the characteristic of k is good for g we do so by relating k g r to a certain quotient of the coordinate algebra k g of the lie algebra g of g and using a koszul resolution we note that the argument may also be applied to certain polynomial modules occurring in the context of doty s conjecture 17 4 2 11

sheaf cohomology on gb and tensor products of weyl modulus let k be an algebraically closed field it is assumed that char k p 0 unless otherwise indicated g is a simply connected semisimple algebraic group over k t is a fixed maximal torus and b a bore1 subgroup of g containing t let qi g t be the root system of g d the set of all simple roots and and the sets of all positive and negative roots relative to d respectively we assume that the set a is chosen such that b corresponds to 0 let x be the weight lattice of sp which may be considered as the character group of t or b therefore if 1 e x by abuse of notation we also denote by l the one dimensional tor b module determined by a let x be the set of all dominant weights and w the fundamental weight corresponding to a simple root a e a we denote by 6 the half sum of all positive roots and we know that 6 is the sum of all fundamental weights let w be the weyl group of 0 the reflection with respect to a root a is denoted by s the longest element of w by w there are two ways of w acting on x i the ordinary action if 1 e x m e w the image of i under w is denoted by 2 ii dot action w a 5 2 6 s in particular let a w a the dual root system of is denoted by and the dual root of a e by a i e u 2a a u where is the inner product invariant under the ordinary action of w of the euclidean space spanned by for 1 e x a e let a a 1 a all modules of an algebraic group we consider in this paper are assumed to be rational in particular for an infinite dimensional module the term rational module means this module is a direct limit of finite dimensional rational modules let h be a closed subgroup of g containing t such as g b or t m an h module we define for l e x