Inequalities for some blocks of finite groups.

DOI10.1007/S00013-006-1769-8MaRDI QIDQ854691zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gunter Malle, Gabriel Navarro

Publication date 6 December 2006

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-006-1769-8

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-solvable groupsAlperin-McKay conjectureblocksBrauer \(k(B)\)-conjecturedefect groupsfinite groupsnumbers of characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group and \(B\) be a \(p\)-block of \(G\) with defect group \(D\). Let \(k(B)=|\text{Irr}(B)|\), \(l(B)=|\text{IBr}(B)|\), \(k_0(B)\) be the number of height zero characters in \(B\), and \(k(D)\) be the number of irreducible characters of \(D\). It is proved that the inequalities \[ k(B)/k_0(B)\leq k(D')\quad\text{ and }\quad k(B)/l(B)\leq k(D)\tag{1} \] hold under each of the following hypotheses: (i) \(D\) is normal in \(G\), (ii) \(G\) is a symmetric group, or (iii) \(G\) is an exceptional group of Lie type in its defining characteristic. The authors wonder whether similar inequalities might be true for general blocks. This might be of interest as, for example, even the weaker inequality \(k(B)/k_0(B)\leq|D'|\) together with the Alperin-McKay Conjecture would imply Brauer's \(k(B)\)-conjecture. However, the authors express some skepticism that (1) could be true for all \(p\)-solvable groups.

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