Combinatorial data abstracting a reductive group G acting on a
representation V, together with a unipotent subgroup U, an indexing I of
irreducible subrepresentations W i, and bookkeeping axioms: faithfulness of U,
irreducibility of each W i, complete reducibility of V, the existence of
unipotent fixed points in any nonzero subrepresentation, and the existence of the
fixed-point subspace under U of any subrepresentation.
Instances For
The unipotent subgroup U acts trivially on each irreducible summand W i:
combining irreducibility with the existence of a unipotent fixed point forces
U to fix every element of W i.
The unipotent subgroup U acts trivially on all of V, by complete
reducibility together with triviality on each summand.
The unipotent subgroup is trivial: every element of U equals the identity.
Lemma 1.30.2 (Etingof–Gelaki–Nikshych–Ostrik): A reductive group acting on a completely reducible faithful representation has trivial unipotent radical.