The inductive Alperin-McKay condition for 2-blocks with cyclic defect groups. (Q5964794)

The Alperin-McKay conjecture asserts that \(k_0(B)\), the number of irreducible characters of height zero in a block \(B\) of a finite group \(G\), coincides with \(k_0(b)\) where \(b\) is the Brauer correspondent of \(B\). The paper under review is part of an ongoing project whose aim is a proof of the Alperin-McKay conjecture, by making use of the classification of the finite simple groups. In an earlier paper [J. Reine Angew. Math. 680, 153-189 (2013; Zbl 1283.20006)], the second author of this paper had reduced the Alperin-McKay conjecture to a condition (iAMc) which needs to be verified for all blocks of covering groups of nonabelian finite simple groups. In the paper under review, the authors verify (iAMc), the inductive Alperin-McKay condition, in the case of \(2\)-blocks with cyclic defect groups. The case of odd primes will be dealt with in a forthcoming paper by the same authors.