Conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups of general linear groups

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Abstract: We compute conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups of the general linear group. This computation proceeds by reducing to a ``matrix problem. Such problems involve finding normal forms for matrices under a specified set of row and column operations. We solve the relevant matrix problem in small dimensional cases. This gives us all conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups over a perfect field when one of the two blocks has dimension less than 6. In particular, this includes every maximal parabolic subgroup of GL_n(k) for n < 12 and k a perfect field. If our field is finite of size q, we also show that the number of conjugacy classes, and so the number of characters, of these groups is a polynomial in q with integral coefficients.


The aim of this paper is to compute the conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups of the general linear group. The author reduces the computation to a ``matrix problem, and gives all the conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups over a perfect field when one of the two blocks has dimension less than 6. If the field is finite with \(q\) elements, the author shows that the number of conjugacy classes of these groups is a polynomial in \(q\) with integral coefficients.











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