Infinite dimensional modules for finite groups

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Publication date 10 February 2002

cohomology finite groups group algebras idempotent modules module varieties nucleus phantom maps principal blocks stable module categories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Module categories in associative algebras (16D90) Homological functors on modules (Tor, Ext, etc.) in associative algebras (16E30) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

Review text

For a long time, representation theory of a finite group \(G\) over a field \(k\) has mainly been concerned with finite-dimensional modules. In this survey article, the author indicates how infinite-dimensional modules have, in recent years, entered the field. Most of the problems considered have to do with cohomology. One of the aims is to get a better understanding of finitely generated modules \(M\) in the principal block of the group algebra \(kG\) satisfying \(H^n(G,M)=0\) for all \(n>0\). The author explains how this can be achieved using Rickard's (infinite-dimensional) idempotent modules. Additional related topics are varieties for infinite-dimensional modules and thick subcategories of stable module categories, as well as phantom maps between modules. Here one of the open problems is whether compositions of two or more phantom maps are always zero; these and other questions are motivated by similar results in topology. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0945.00021].

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