Prof. Dr. Gerhard Röhrle

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Arbeitsgebiete

  • Algebraische Lie Theorie
  • Algebraische Gruppen
  • Darstellungstheorie

  • DFG project: Serre's notion of Complete Reducibility and Geometric Invariant Theory (within the DFG Priority Programme in Representation Theory).
     
  • DFG project: Computational aspects of the Cohomology of Coxeter arrangements: On Conjectures of Lehrer-Solomon and Felder-Veselov (within the DFG Priority Programme "Algorithmic and experimental methods in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory").
     
  • Publications on MathSciNet.

  • Recent preprints on the ArXiv.
     
  • Latest preprints:

    Spherical subgroups in simple algebraic groups
    with F. Knop
    Abstract:
    Let G be a simple algebraic group. A closed subgroup H of G is called spherical provided it has a dense orbit on the flag variety G/B of G. Reductive spherical subgroups of simple Lie groups were classified by Kr\"amer in 1979. In 1997, Brundan showed that each example from Kr\"amer's list also gives rise to a spherical subgroup in the corresponding simple algebraic group in any positive characteristic. Nevertheless, there is no classification of all such instances in positive characteristic to date. The goal of this paper is to complete this classification. It turns out that there is only one additional instance (up to isogeny) in characteristic 2 which has no counterpart in Kr\"amer's classification.
    math.GR/1305.3183

    G-complete reducibility in non-connected groups
    with M. Bate, S. Herpel and B. Martin
    Abstract:
    In this paper we present an algorithm for determining whether a subgroup H of a non-connected reductive group G is G-completely reducible. The algorithm consists of a series of reductions; at each step, we perform operations involving connected groups, such as checking whether a certain subgroup of G^0 is G^0 -cr. This essentially reduces the problem of determining G-complete reducibility to the connected case.
    math.GR/1303.0963

    Calculating conjugacy classes in Sylow p-subgroups of finite Chevalley groups of rank six and seven
    with S. M. Goodwin and P. Mosch
    Abstract:
    Let G(q) be a finite Chevalley group, where q is a power of a good prime p, and let U(q) be a Sylow p-subgroup of G(q). Then a generalized version of a conjecture of Higman asserts that the number k(U(q)) of conjugacy classes in U(q) is given by a polynomial in q with integer coefficients. In an earlier paper, the first and the third authors developed an algorithm to calculate the values of k(U(q)). By implementing it into a computer program using GAP, they were able to calculate k(U(q)) for G of rank at most 5, thereby proving that for these cases k(U(q)) is given by a polynomial in q. In this paper we present some refinements and improvements of the algorithm that allow us to calculate the values of k(U(q)) for finite Chevalley groups of rank six and seven, except E_7. We observe that k(U(q)) is a polynomial, so that the generalized Higman conjecture holds for these groups. Moreover, if we write k(U(q)) as a polynomial in q-1, then the coefficients are non-negative. Under the assumption that k(U(q)) is a polynomial in q-1, we also give an explicit formula for the coefficients of k(U(q)) of degrees zero, one and two.
    math.GR/1302.6904

    Equivariant K-theory of generalized Steinberg varieties
    with J. M. Douglass
    Abstract:
    We describe the equivariant K-groups of a family of generalized Steinberg varieties that interpolates between the Steinberg variety of a reductive, complex algebraic group and its nilpotent cone in terms of the extended affine Hecke algebra and double cosets in the extended affine Weyl group. As an application, we use this description to define Kazhdan-Lusztig "bar" involutions and Kazhdan-Lusztig bases for these equivariant K-groups.
    math.RT/1302.4530

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    Former and current PhD students:
    Simon Goodwin (University of Birmingham)
    Michael Bate (University of York)
    Russell Fowler (Npower)
    Glenn Ubly (NHS)
    Sebastian Herpel (University of Kaiserslautern)
    Peter Mosch
    Nils Amend


    Editorial Activity: Tbilisi Mathematical Journal .

    Computer Programs