Pathological Behavior of Arithmetic Invariants of Unipotent Groups

Abstract

We show that all of the nice behavior for Tamagawa numbers, Tate-Shafarevich sets, and other arithmetic invariants of pseudo-reductive groups over global function fields proved in \cite{rospred} fails in general for non-commutative unipotent groups. We also give some positive results which show that Tamagawa numbers do exhibit some reasonable behavior for arbitrary connected linear algebraic groups over global function fields.