# Tag Archives: hopf algebra

## Highlights in Linear Algebraic Groups 4: Lie Algebras III

Last time in this series, we saw the definition of the Lie algebra of a linear algebraic group $G$ over a arbitrary field $k$ as the set of differentiations $f:k[G]\to k$; these are the $k$-linear maps satisfying $f(ab) = \epsilon(a)f(b) + f(a)\epsilon(b)$ where $\epsilon:k[G]\to k$ is the counit morphism […]

## Highlights in Linear Algebraic Groups 3: Lie Algebras II

In Linear Algebraic Groups 2, we defined the Lie algebra of an algebraic group $G$ to be the Lie algebra of all left-invariant derivations $D:k[G]\to k[G]$ where $k[G]$ is the representing algebra of $G$. However, we were left trying to figure out exactly how a morphism $\varphi:G\to H$ determines a […]

## Highlights in Linear Algebraic Groups 2: Lie Algebras

I've decided to start this series with a few posts on the Lie algebra of an algebraic group. This seems to me the first real technical aspect of the classical theory that arises in Humphreys' book. We shall loosely follow this book as a guide, but we shall also deviate and look at more scheme-theoretic […]