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Defining R and G.R/

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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 3325-3358

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EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOC-EMS
DOI: 10.4171/JEMS/1255

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Chevalley groups; bi-interpretation

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We prove that each root subgroup of Chevalley groups G(R) of rank at least 2 over an integral domain R is (essentially) the double centralizer of a corresponding root element. This result leads to a new approach to bi-interpretability for algebraic groups over a wide range of rings and fields. It also shows that if R is (finitely) axiomatizable in the corresponding class of rings, then the group G(R) is (finitely) axiomatizable in the appropriate class of groups.
We show that for Chevalley groups G(R) of rank at least 2 over an integral domain R each root subgroup is (essentially) the double centralizer of a corresponding root element. In many cases, this implies that R and G(R) are bi-interpretable, yielding a new approach to bi-interpretability for algebraic groups over a wide range of rings and fields.For such groups it then follows that the group G(R) is (finitely) axiomatizable in the appropriate class of groups provided R is (finitely) axiomatizable in the corresponding class of rings.

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