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Grothendieck's Finite Flat Group Scheme Order Question

Grothendieck asked whether every finite locally free group scheme of order $n$ is killed by $n$ (its $n$-th convolution power map equals the unit). The counterexample is an order-4 group scheme not killed by 4 (killed only by 8); since Deligne settled the commutative case, it is necessarily non-commutative over a non-reduced base.

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Grothendieck's Finite Flat Group Scheme Order Question

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Grothendieck asked whether every finite locally free group scheme of order $n$ is killed by $n$ (its $n$-th convolution power map equals the unit). The counterexample is an order-4 group scheme not killed by 4 (killed only by 8); since Deligne settled the commutative case, it is necessarily non-commutative over a non-reduced base.

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Grothendieck asked whether every finite locally free group scheme of order $n$ is killed by $n$ (its $n$-th convolution power map equals the unit). The counterexample is an order-4 group scheme not killed by 4 (killed only by 8); since Deligne settled the commutative case, it is necessarily non-commutative over a non-reduced base.

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