Jordan decomposition in an affine algebraic group

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Jordan decomposition in an affine algebraic group by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
This is the multiplicative Jordan–Chevalley decomposition in a linear algebraic group. Every element of an affine algebraic group has unique commuting semisimple and unipotent parts such that . The construction agrees with the multiplicative Jordan decomposition in every rational representation.

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