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Pro-algebraic and differential algebraic group structures on affine spaces
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 122, Number 1, February 2000
- pp. 213-221
- 10.1353/ajm.2000.0004
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We prove the following result, solving a problem raised in an article by A. Buium and Ph. J. Cassidy, to appear in the collected works of E. Kolchin. If G is a differential algebraic group whose underlying set is some affine n-space, then G is unipotent. A key result, possibly of independent interest, concerns infinite-dimensional group schemes: a group scheme whose underlying scheme is Spec (K[X1, X2,...]) (K an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0) is a projective limit of unipotent algebraic groups.