We will tend touseboldfacecharacters, such as, for algebraic groups over , as also for group schemes over that are obtained from groups over . A quintessential example is . For arbitrary group schemes, or more generally group functors, over we shall tend to use german characters, such as .
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Every finiteflatgroup schemeoforder over is of the form for some triple , and is isomorphic to if and only if there exists an isomorphism from to carrying to and to .