Weights for the Steinberg triality groups \({^ 3D_ 4(q)}\) (Q1346350)

This paper is part of a program to investigate Alperin's weight conjecture for finite groups of Lie type. The investigation was begun by Alperin and Fong in 1990 and continued by the author. In this paper the conjecture has been proved for the Steinberg triality groups \({^ 3D_ 4(q)}\) for all \(r\)-blocks, where \(r\) is a prime and \(q\) is a power of a prime \(p\) different from \(r\). The radical \(r\)-subgroups of \({^ 3D_ 4(q)}\) have been classified and their local structure has been described. It turns out that a radical 2-subgroup of \({^ 3D_ 4(q)}\) is a radical 2-subgroup of a maximal subgroup \(G_ 2(q)\) of \({^ 3D_ 4(q)}\) and the local structure of a nonabelian radical 2-subgroup of \({^ 3D_ 4}\) is either the same as that in \(G_ 2(q)\) or in \(G_ 2(q^ 3)\).