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On the adjoint quotient of Chevalley groups over arbitrary base schemes
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- Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu / Volume 9 / Issue 4 / October 2010
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- 16 April 2010, pp. 673-704
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- October 2010
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For a split semisimple Chevalley group scheme G with Lie algebra
over an arbitrary base scheme S, we consider the quotient of by the adjoint action of G. We study in detail the structure of over S. Given a maximal torus T with Lie algebra 
and associated Weyl group W, we show that the Chevalley morphism π : /W → /G is an isomorphism except for the group Sp2n over a base with 2-torsion. In this case this morphism is only dominant and we compute it explicitly. We compute the adjoint quotient in some other classical cases, yielding examples where the formation of the quotient → /G commutes, or does not commute, with base change on S.
over an arbitrary base scheme 
and associated Weyl group 