A numerical invariant for linear representations of finite groups

DOI10.4171/CMH/367MaRDI QIDQ894379zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nikita Karpenko, Zinovy Reichstein

Publication date 30 November 2015

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4037

zbMATH Keywords

essential dimensioncentral simple algebrasrepresentations of finite groupscanonical dimensionSchur indexSeveri-Brauer varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic cycles (14C25) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Brauer groups (algebraic aspects) (16K50)

Abstract: We study the notion of essential dimension for a linear representation of a finite group. In characteristic zero we relate it to the canonical dimension of certain products of Weil transfers of generalized Severi-Brauer varieties. We then proceed to compute the canonical dimension of a broad class of varieties of this type, extending earlier results of the first author. As a consequence, we prove analogues of classical theorems of R. Brauer and O. Schilling about the Schur index, where the Schur index of a representation is replaced by its essential dimension. In the last section we show that essential dimension of representations can behave in rather unexpected ways in the modular setting.

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