N. L. Gordeev proved that a generalized group identity holds in Chevalley groups with multiply laced root systems. It was also shown that a stronger identity is valid for the Chevalley groups of types Bl and Cl. In the present paper, it is proved that this strong identity is fulfilled in Chevalley groups of type F4 and fails to be true in Chevalley groups of type G2. The main result of the paper is the last ingredient in the proof of the claim that the lattice of intermediate subgroups between G(F4,R) and G(F4,A) is standard for an arbitrary pair of rings R ⊆ A with 2 invertible.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)819-823
Number of pages5
JournalSt. Petersburg Mathematical Journal
Volume21
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2010

    Research areas

  • Chevalley group, Group identity, Multiply laced root system

    Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Algebra and Number Theory
  • Applied Mathematics

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