Introduction to the First Edition
Introduction to the Second Edition
Conventions and Notation
CHAPTER AG--Background Material From Algebraic Geometry
1. Some Topological Notions
2. Some Facts from Field Theory
3. Some Commutative Algebra
4. Sheaves
5. Affine K-Schemes, Prevarieties
6. Products; Varieties
7. Projective and Complete Varieties
8. Rational Functions; Dominant Morphisms
9. Dimension
10. Images and Fibres of a Morphism
11. k-structures on K-Schemes
12. k-Structures on Varieties
13. Separable points
14. Galois Criteria for Rationality
15. Derivations and Differentials
16. Tangent Spaces
17. Simple Points
18. Normal Varieties
References
CHAPTER I--General Notions Associated With Algebraic Groups
1. The Notion of an Algebraic Groups
2. Group Closure; Solvable and Nilpotent Groups
3. The Lie Algebra of an Algebraic Group
4. Jordan Decomposition
CHAPTER 11 Homogeneous Spaces
5. Semi-lnvariants
6. Homogeneous Spaces
7. Algebraic Groups in Characteristic Zero
CHAPTER 111 Solvable Groups
8. Diagonalizable Groups and Tori
9. Conjugacy Classes and Centralizers of Scmi-Simple Elements
10. Connected Solvable Groups
CHAPTER IV -- Borel Subgroups; Rcductive Groups
11. Borei Subgroups
12. Caftan Subgroups; Regular Elements
13. The Borel Subgroups Containing a Given Torus
14. Root Systems and Bruhat Decomposition in Reductive Groups
CHAPTER V-- Rationality Questions
15. Split Solvable Groups and Subgroups
16. Groups over Finite Fields
17. Quotient of a Group by a Lie Subalgebra
18. Cartan Subgroups over the Groundfield. Unirationality. Splitting of Reductive Groups
19. Cartan Subgroups of Solvable Groups
20. lsotropic Reductive Groups
21. Relative Root System and Bruhat Decomposition for lsotropic ReductiveGroups
22. Central lsogenies
23. Examples
24. Survey of Some Other Topics
A. Classification
B. Linear Representations
C. Real Reductive Groups
References for Chapters I to V
Index of Definition
Index of Notation