Defect groups, conjugacy classes and the Robinson map.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2003.10.004MaRDI QIDQ1887587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Breuer, Lászlo Héthelyi, Erzsébet Horváth

Publication date 22 November 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2003.10.004

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-blocks\(p\)-nilpotent groupsconjugacy classesdefect classesdefect groupsnumbers of \(p\)-regular classesnumbers of blocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group and let \(p\) be a prime divisor of \(|G|\). Let \(D\) be a \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\). An interesting problem in the theory of \(p\)-blocks of \(G\) is to try to relate the \(p\)-regular classes of \(G\) with defect group \(D\) to the \(p\)-blocks of \(G\) with defect group \(D\). A variation of this problem is to ask, for a given \(p\)-block \(B\) with defect group \(D\), which \(p\)-regular classes occur as defect classes for \(B\). We cannot expect too much information on this subject, except when \(D\) is a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\), in which case a theorem of Brauer and Nesbitt gives us complete information. The paper under review provides, among other things, inequalities which generalize the Brauer-Nesbitt theorem. To describe some of the main results of the paper, we fix the following notation. Let \(H\) be a subgroup of \(G\) containing \(D\) and let \(\text{cl}(H^0|D)\) denote the set of \(p\)-regular conjugacy classes of \(H\) with defect group \(D\). Similarly, let \(\text{Bl}(H|D)\) denote the set of \(p\)-blocks of \(H\) with defect group \(D\). Then, with the usual notation, taking \(H=DC_G(D)\), we have the inequality \[ |\text{cl}(G^0|D)|-|\text{Bl}(G|D)|\leq|\text{cl}(DC_G(D)^0|D)| -|\text{Bl}(DC_G(D)|D)|. \] Hence, if \(|\text{cl}(DC_G(D)^0|D)|=|\text{Bl}(DC_G(D)|D)|\), then \(|\text{cl}(G^0|D)|=|\text{Bl}(G|D)|\), and moreover, in this case, each \(p\)-regular class of \(G\) with defect group \(D\) occurs as a defect class for a \(p\)-block of \(G\) with defect group \(D\). Furthermore, if \(DC_G(D)\) is \(p\)-nilpotent, then \(|\text{cl}(DC_G(D)^0|D)|=|\text{Bl}(DC_G(D)|D)|\) and hence the additional equality holds.

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