Blocks and support varieties.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2015.04.023MaRDI QIDQ492988zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Hauge, Jeremy Rickard, Jon F. Carlson

Publication date 11 September 2015

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0554

zbMATH Keywords

block decompositionsblockscohomologydefect groupssupport varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

Abstract: The theory of support varieties gives a rich supply of examples of thick subcategories of the stable module category of a finite group algebra. We study direct sum decompositions of such categories. We give examples where there are finer decompositions than one might originally expect, and relate this to Linckelmann's theory of block varieties.

Review text

Let \(k\) be a field of characteristic \(p>0\), and let \(G\) be a finite group. The block decomposition of the category \(\mathbf{mod}(kG)\) of finitely generated modules over the group algebra \(kG\) is a classical tool in representation theory. The authors define and investigate block decompositions of related categories, e.g. of the stable category \(\mathbf{stmod}(kG)\) and of thick subcategories \(\mathcal C\) of \(\mathbf{stmod}(kG)\). These are refinements of the classical block decomposition of \(\mathcal C\). In order to describe one of the main results of the paper, let \(\mathcal C_V\) be the thick subcategory of \(\mathbf{stmod}(kG)\) defined by a closed homogeneous subvariety \(V\) of the maximal ideal spectrum \(V_G(k)\) of the cohomology ring \(H^*(G,k)\). Moreover, let \(B\) be a block of \(kG\), let \(V_{G,B}\) be the block variety defined by Linckelmann, and let \(\varrho_B\colon V_{G,B}\to V_G(k)\) be the canonical map. The authors prove that the blocks of \(\mathcal C_V\cap B\) (called ext-blocks in the paper) are parametrized by the connected components of the projective variety associated to \(\varrho^{-1}_B(V)\).

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