Sunday, 18 October 2009

ag.algebraic geometry - Lie algebra actions on schemes

Let us assume first of all that we are in the affine case (we can worry about globalization later) and that we have X affine over S, where S is some unspecified scheme (but in practice probably the spectrum of a field), with X=mathrmSpec(A) (thus A is an mathcalOS-algebra). We are emphatically not assuming X to be smooth over S.



Assume that we are given a map mathfrakgtomathrmDerS(A) of Lie algebras and that we are viewing mathfrakg as a Lie-sub-algebra of mathrmDerS(A).



In analogy with the differential-geometric case we can interpret this as a distribution on X and so we can ask: what are the integral subschemes of this distribution? Specifically, is there, through every point, a unique integral subscheme? And even more importantly, what can go wrong in the singular points and can we "integrate" this action to an analogue of a Lie groupoid?



I'm seriously betting the answer to most of the above is a resounding "NO!" but I'm curious to know what can go wrong and what is known to go wrong? In short: what is known concerning this? Can one form something like "X/mathfrakg"?



Finally, let me iterate that I'm not assuming X to be S-smooth.

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