in the 1960's noboru iwahori and hideya matsumoto, eiichi abe and kazuo suzuki, and michael stein discovered that chevalley groups $g=g(phi,r)$ over a semilocal ring admit remarkable gauss decomposition $g=tuu^-u$, where $t=t(phi,r)$ is a split maximal torus, whereas $u=u(phi,r)$ and $u^-=u^-(phi,r)$ are unipotent radicals of two opposite borel subgroups $b=b(phi,r)$ and $b^-=b^-(phi,r)$ contai...

This is the rst in a series of papers dedicated to the structure of Chevalley groups over commutative rings. The goal of this series is to systematically develop methods of calculations in Chevalley groups over rings, based on the use of their minimal modules. As an application we give new direct proofs for normality of the elementary subgroup, description of normal subgroups and similar result...

In the present paper we prove the main structure theorem for Chevalley groups G = G(Φ, R) of types Φ = E6,E7 over a commutative ring R. More precisely, we describe subgroups in G normalized by the elementary subgroup E(Φ, R). This result is not new, since structure theorems are known for all Chevalley groups [25, 27, 28, 30], [38]–[40], and [58, 61] (see [42, 65, 34, 56] for further references)...

We establish property (T) for a large class of groups graded by root systems, including elementary Chevalley groups and Steinberg groups of rank at least 2 over finitely generated commutative rings with 1. We also construct a group with property (T) which surjects onto all finite simple groups of Lie type and rank at least two.

A new geometric proof is given for the standard description of subgroups in the Chevalley group G = G(F4, R) of type F4 over a commutative ring R that are normalized by the elementary subgroup E(F4, R). There are two major approaches to the proof of such results. Localization proofs (Quillen, Suslin, Bak) are based on a reduction in the dimension. The first proofs of this type for exceptional g...

We use the Steenrod algebra to study the Chow ring CH∗BG of the classifying space of an algebraic group G. We describe a localization property which relates a given G to its elementary abelian subgroups, and we study a number of particular cases, namely symmetric groups and Chevalley groups. It turns out that the Chow rings of these groups are completely determined by the abelian subgroups and ...