Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-167/3/iv/solution

For and , the quotient is
It is a faithfully flat -torsor, including in characteristic two where is nonreduced. It is not a Zariski torsor: a local section over any nonempty open set would put a square root of the coordinate in the function field , but is not a square there.
Take with acting by , and let . The equality holds exactly when , so the scheme-theoretic stabilizer is .
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