Groups with bounded representation degree

DOI10.1080/00927870008827125MaRDI QIDQ4515494zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Behn

Publication date 7 June 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927870008827125

zbMATH Keywords

group algebrasgroups of bounded representation degreeirreducible representationspolynomial identitiessubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other kinds of identities (generalized polynomial, rational, involution) (16R50) Group rings (16S34) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

Review text

Let \(K[G]\) denote the group algebra of a group \(G\) over a field \(K\) of characteristic \(p>0\). We say that an irreducible representation \(\rho\) of this algebra has finite degree \(\leq n\) if \(\rho(K[G])\) satisfies a polynomial identity of degree \(\leq 2n\) or equivalently if \(\rho(K[G])\) has dimension \(\leq n^2\) over its center. If all irreducible representations of \(K[G]\) have degree \(\leq n\), then it is shown here that \(G\) has a subgroup \(A\) of finite index \(|G:A|\) bounded by a function of \(n\) and such that all irreducible representations of \(K[A]\) have degree 1. This extends known results in characteristic \(0\) and generalizes known results on group algebras satisfying a polynomial identity. A key ingredient of the proof is the result of \textit{M.~Larsen} and \textit{R.~Pink} [in Finite subgroups of algebraic groups] which asserts that a finite nonabelian simple characteristic \(p\) linear group of degree \(n\) either has order bounded by a function of \(n\) or is a characteristic \(p\) Chevalley group.

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