maximal subtorus of a connected commutative algebraic linear group

57 Views Asked by At

I'm wondering the following:

is the maximal subtorus of a connected commutative algebraic linear group over $k$ a) normal and closed b) defined over $k$ (for $k$ a field of characteristic zero, not necessarily algebraically closed)?

1

There are 1 best solutions below

0
On BEST ANSWER

It is defined over $k$ for any $k$ (not even of char $0$). The result is due to Grothendieck, you can find this in SGA3 or also in Borels Linear Algebraic Groups book.