Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Affine Group Schemes....Pages 3-12 Affine Group Schemes: Examples....Pages 13-20 Representations....Pages 21-27 Algebraic Matrix Groups....Pages 28-35 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Irreducible and Connected Components....Pages 39-45 Connected Components and Separable Algebras....Pages 46-53 Groups of Multiplicative Type....Pages 54-61 Unipotent Groups....Pages 62-67 Jordan Decomposition....Pages 68-72 Nilpotent and Solvable Groups....Pages 73-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Differentials....Pages 83-91 Lie Algebras....Pages 92-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Faithful Flatness....Pages 103-108 Faithful Flatness of Hopf Algebras....Pages 109-113 Quotient Maps....Pages 114-120 Construction of Quotients....Pages 121-127 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Descent Theory Formalism....Pages 131-139 Descent Theory Computations....Pages 140-150 Back Matter....Pages 151-164