Combinatorial methods of character enumeration for the unitriangular group.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2011.07.035MaRDI QIDQ408525zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Marberg

Publication date 10 April 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2341

zbMATH Keywords

supercharactersalgebra groupsconnected set partitionsdegrees of complex irreducible charactersgroups of upper triangular matricesKirillov functionsLehrer conjectureunitriangular groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

Abstract: Let $U{T}_n(q)$ denote the group of unipotent $nimesn$ upper triangular matrices over a field with $q$ elements. The degrees of the complex irreducible characters of $U{T}_n(q)$ are precisely the integers $q^e$ with $0leqeleqlfloorfracn2floorlfloorfracn-12floor$, and it has been conjectured that the number of irreducible characters of $U{T}_n(q)$ with degree $q^e$ is a polynomial in $q-1$ with nonnegative integer coefficients (depending on $n$ and $e$). We confirm this conjecture when $eleq8$ and $n$ is arbitrary by a computer calculation. In particular, we describe an algorithm which allows us to derive explicit bivariate polynomials in $n$ and $q$ giving the number of irreducible characters of $U{T}_n(q)$ with degree $q^e$ when $n>2e$ and $eleq8$. When divided by $q^{n-e-2}$ and written in terms of the variables $n-2e-1$ and $q-1$, these functions are actually bivariate polynomials with nonnegative integer coefficients, suggesting an even stronger conjecture concerning such character counts. As an application of these calculations, we are able to show that all irreducible characters of $U{T}_n(q)$ with degree $leq{q}^8$ are Kirillov functions. We also discuss some related results concerning the problem of counting the irreducible constituents of individual supercharacters of $U{T}_n(q)$.

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