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Motivic Haar Measure on Reductive Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Julia Gordon
Julia Gordon*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4S 2E4 e-mail: gor@math.toronto.edu
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Abstract

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We define a motivic analogue of the Haar measure for groups of the form $G(k((t)))$, where $k$ is an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and $G$ is a reductive algebraic group defined over $k$. A classical Haar measure on such groups does not exist since they are not locally compact. We use the theory of motivic integration introduced by M. Kontsevich to define an additive function on a certain natural Boolean algebra of subsets of $G(k((t)))$. This function takes values in the so-called dimensional completion of the Grothendieck ring of the category of varieties over the base field. It is invariant under translations by all elements of $G(k((t)))$, and therefore we call it a motivic analogue of Haar measure. We give an explicit construction of the motivic Haar measure, and then prove that the result is independent of all the choices that are made in the process.

Keywords

14A1514L15motivic integrationreductive group
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , 01 February 2006 , pp. 93 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2006

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