Half-integrality of line bundles on partial flag schemes of classical Lie groups

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a theory of Galois descent for equivariant line bundles on partial flag schemes. In particular, we study computational aspects of the classification of descent data of equivariant line bundles attached to characters of parabolic subgroups. As an application, we classify equivariant line bundles on partial flag schemes of the standard Z[1/2]-forms of classical Lie groups.