Basic sets in defining characteristic for general linear groups of small rank.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2008.09.006MaRDI QIDQ1004473zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olivier Brunat

Publication date 10 March 2009

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2008.09.006

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-basic setsfinite groups of Lie typeirreducible characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group, let \(p\) be a prime and let \(\text{Irr}(G)\) be the set of ordinary irreducible characters of \(G\). For \(\chi\in\text{Irr}(G)\), let \(\widehat\chi\) denote the restriction of \(\chi\) to the \(p\)-regular elements of \(G\). A `\(p\)-basic set' of \(G\) is a subset \(B\) of \(\text{Irr}(G)\) such that the set \(\{\widehat\chi\mid\chi\in B\}\) is a \(\mathbb{Z}\)-basis of the \(\mathbb{Z}\)-module generated by \(\{\widehat\chi\mid\chi\in\text{Irr}(G)\}\). Examples show that finding a \(p\)-basic set can help with computing the decomposition matrix of a finite group \(G\). It is not known whether \(p\)-basic sets exist for all finite groups; cases that are known include finite groups of Lie type when \(p\) is different from the defining characteristic. This paper proposes a method for finding a \(p\)-basic set when \(G\) is a finite group of Lie type over a field of characteristic \(p\). Briefly, the method is to find certain ``good relations between characters of \(G\) (the author shows how such relations can be generated using Deligne-Lusztig theory and also the Gelfand-Graev character of \(G\)); these relations can then be used to find \(p\)-basic sets in some cases. The method is illustrated via explicit constructions of \(p\)-basic sets for \(G=\text{GL}_n(q)\), where \(q\) is a power of \(p\) and \(n=2\), \(3\) or \(4\).

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