Extensions, Levi subgroups and character formulas.

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Abstract: This paper consists of three interconnected parts. Parts I,III study the relationship between the cohomology of a reductive group and that of a Levi subgroup. For example, we provide a necessary condition, arising from Kazhdan-Lusztig theory, for the natural map on Ext-groups of irreducible modules to be surjective. In cohomological degree 1, the map is always an isomorphism, under our hypothesis. These results were inspired by recent work of Hemmer obtained for general linear groups, and they both extend and improve upon his work when our condition is met. Part II obtains results on Lusztig character formulas for reductive groups, obtaining new necessary and sufficient conditions for such formulas to hold. In the special case of general linear groups, these conditions can be recast in a striking way completely in terms of explicit representation theoretic properties of the symmetric group (and the results improve upon the sufficient cohomological conditions established recently in the authors).


Let \(G\) be a connected reductive group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p\). The main theme of this paper is to study the effect on an Ext group \(\text{Ext}^i(M,N)\) (or a highest weight category) of restriction from \(G\) to a Levi subgroup \(L\) of a parabolic subgroup. Cases of interest occur when \(M,N\) are simple, or one of them is standard (or costandard). There are many examples and asides. It is known that the conjecture of Lusztig on characters of irreducible \(G\)-modules can be expressed in terms of restriction to \(L\). The authors elaborate on this connection. For the case \(G=\text{GL}_n\) the conjecture is further translated into a problem in the modular representation theory of symmetric groups.



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