A characterisation of nilpotent blocks.

DOI10.1090/PROC/12646MaRDI QIDQ3450057zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 2 November 2015

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5871, http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/6902/1/1402.5871v1.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

blocksdefect groupsfinite groupsfocal subgroupfusion systemshyperfocal subalgebrasirreducible characterssource algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Abstract: Let $B$ be a $p$-block of a finite group, and set $m=$ $sumchi(1{)}^2$, the sum taken over all height zero characters of $B$. Motivated by a result of M. Isaacs characterising $p$-nilpotent finite groups in terms of character degrees, we show that $B$ is nilpotent if and only if the exact power of $p$ dividing $m$ is equal to the $p$-part of $|G:P{|}^2|P:R|$, where $P$ is a defect group of $B$ and where $R$ is the focal subgroup of $P$ with respect to a fusion system $CF$ of $B$ on $P$. The proof involves the hyperfocal subalgebra $D$ of a source algebra of $B$. We conjecture that all ordinary irreducible characters of $D$ have degree prime to $p$ if and only if the $CF$-hyperfocal subgroup of $P$ is abelian.

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