Conjugacy in groups of upper triangular matrices

DOI10.1006/JABR.1997.7311MaRDI QIDQ1265518zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. M. Isaacs, D. B. Karagueuzian

Publication date 18 November 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1997.7311

zbMATH Keywords

general linear groupsgroups of unipotent triangular matricesreal valued charactersSylow subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Other matrix groups over finite fields (20H30)

Review text

Let \(U_n(F_q)\) denote the group of unipotent upper triangular \(n\times n\) matrices over the field \(F_q=\text{GF}(q)\), so that \(U_n(F_q)\) is a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of the general linear group \(\text{GL}_n(F_q)\), where \(q\) is a power of \(p\). The authors highlight the fact that despite the evidence of the cases \(n\leq 12\), the characters of \(U_n(F_2)\) are not always real valued. Equivalently, for sufficiently large \(n\), there exist matrices in \(U_n(F_2)\) that are not conjugate in this group to their inverses. Furthermore, they give an example, by taking \(n=20\), which shows that not every matrix in \(U_n(F_3)\) is conjugate to its fourth power. They explain also the reason why it is that the characters of \(U_n(F_2)\) are real, and even rational, valued for so many small values of \(n\).

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