On the Existence of Mock Injective Modules for Algebraic Groups

Abstract

Let $G$ be an affine algebraic group scheme over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$, and let $G_r$ denote the $r$-th Frobenius kernel of $G$. Motivated by recent work of Friedlander, the authors investigate the class of mock injective $G$-modules, which are defined to be those rational $G$-modules that are injective on restriction to $G_r$ for all $r\geq 1$. In this paper the authors provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of non-injective mock injective $G$-modules, thereby answering a question raised by Friedlander. Furthermore, the authors investigate the existence of non-injective mock injectives with simple socles. Interesting cases are discovered that show that this can occur for reductive groups, but will not occur for their Borel subgroups.