AGS	Basic Theory of Affine Group Schemes	v1.00; 11 March 2012; 275 pages	pdf
LAG	Lie Algebras, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Groups	v2.00; 5 May 2013; 186 pages	pdf
RG	Reductive Groups	v1.00; 11 March 2012; 77 pages	pdf

The goal of this project is to make it possible for everyone to learn the essential theory of affine group schemes (especially reductive groups), Lie algebras, Lie groups, and arithmetic subgroups with the minimum of prerequisites and the minimum of effort. In particular, it should not be necessary to learn the subject twice, once in the style of Weil's Foundations of Algebraic Geometry, and then again in the style of modern algebraic geometry. Nor should it be necessary to read EGA first.

My hope is to have new versions available each northern spring.

AGS: Basic Theory of Affine Group Schemes

This is a modern exposition of the basic theory of affine group schemes. Although the emphasis is on affine group schemes of finite type over a field, we also discuss more general objects, for example, affine group schemes not of finite type and base rings not fields. "Basic" means that we do not investigate the detailed structure of reductive groups using root data except in the final survey chapter. Prerequisites have been held to a minimum: all the reader really needs is a knowledge of some basic commutative algebra and a little of the language of algebraic geometry. The first 17 chapters are fairly complete, but require revision; the final chapter has yet to be written.

LAG: Lie Algebras, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Groups

These notes are an introduction to Lie algebras, algebraic groups, and Lie groups in characteristic zero, emphasizing the relationships between these objects visible in their categories of representations. Eventually these notes will consist of three chapters, each about 100 pages long, and a short appendix. The first chapter (Lie algebras) is mostly complete, the second (algebraic groups) treats only semisimple groups in detail, the third (Lie groups) has yet to be written, and the appendix (a survey of arithmetic subgroups) is complete. The notes will be largely independent of AGS.

v2.00 (May 5, 2013; 186 pages). Major revision.

RG: Reductive Groups

Eventually it is intended that these notes will provide a detailed exposition of the theory of reductive algebraic groups (in about 300 pages). At present only the first chapter on split reductive groups over arbitrary fields exists. The notes will refer to AGS for proofs, but otherwise will be largely independent.

History

v0.00 (May 22, 2005; 219 pages). Posted as Algebraic Groups and Arithmetic Groups (AAG).
v1.00 (April 27, 2009; 192 pages). First version of expanded notes (first two chapters only). Posted as Algebraic Groups, Lie Groups, and their Arithmetic Subgroups (ALA).
v2.00 (April 27, 2010; 378 pages). Posted new version of all six chapters.
v3.00 (April 1, 2011; 422 pages). Major revision (now seven chapters).
v1.00 (March 11, 2012; 494 pages). Major revision; split into three (AGS, LAG, and RG).

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Algebraic Groups, Lie Groups, and their Arithmetic Subgroups

This work has been replaced by the above three, and will not be revised or corrected.
pdf file for the current version (3.00)
This work is a modern exposition of the theory of algebraic groups (affine group schemes), Lie algebras, Lie groups, and their arithmetic subgroups.

Contents

I: Basic Theory of Algebraic Groups Definition; examples; some basic constructions; affine groups and Hopf algebras; affine groups and affine group schemes; group theory: subgroups and quotient groups; representations of affine groups; group theory: the isomorphism theorems; recovering a group from its representations; Jordan decompositions; characterizations of categories of representations; finite flat affine groups; the connected components of an algebraic group; groups of multiplicative type; tori; unipotent affine groups; solvable affine groups; the structure of algebraic groups; the spin groups; the classical semisimple groups; the exceptional semisimple groups; tannakian categories.
II: Lie Algebras and Algebraic Groups The Lie algebra of an algebraic group; Lie algebras and algebraic groups; nilpotent and solvable Lie algebras; unipotent algebraic groups and nilpotent Lie algebras; semisimple Lie algebras and algebraic groups; semisimplicity of representations
III: The Structure of Semisimple Lie Algebras and Algebraic Groups in Characteristic Zero Root systems and their classification; structure of semisimple Lie algebras and their representations; structure of semisimple algebraic groups and their representations; real Lie algebras and real algebraic groups; reductive groups.
IV: Lie groups Lie groups; Lie groups and algebraic groups; compact topological groups
V: The Structure of Reductive Groups: the split case Split reductive groups: the program; the root datum of a split reductive group; Borel fixed point theorem and applications; parabolic subgroups and roots; root data and their classification; construction of split reductive groups: the existence theorem; construction of isogenies of split reductive groups: the isogeny theorem; representations of split reductive groups.
VI: The Structure of Reductive Groups: general case The cohomology of algebraic groups: applications; Classical groups and algebras with involution; relative root systems and the anisotropic kernel
VII: Arithmetic groups