On Ext-quivers of blocks of weight two for symmetric groups (Q1979292)

In representation theory of finite groups, one of the most interesting and important problems should be describing \(p\)-blocks (block algebras) \(B\) of finite groups \(G\) up to Morita equivalence, here \(p\) is a prime that is the characteristic of the ground field \(F\). Surely, Morita equivalence is completely determined by the Ext-quiver and its relations due to P.~Gabriel. This closely related to (so-called) Donovan's conjecture presented as Conjecture M [\textit{J. L. Alperin}, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 37, 369--375 (1980; Zbl 0449.20019)]. In the article under review, the authors treat with the problem determining algebra structure of the \(p\)-block \(B\) in the case where the finite group \(G\) is the symmetric group \({\mathfrak S}_n\) and the ground field \(F\) has characteristic \(p\geq 3\), and most importantly further in the case that the block \(B\) is of (\(p\)-)weight \(w=2\). It turns out that a defect group \(D\) of \(B\) is actually elementary abelian of order \(p^2\), that is the smallest case in wild-representation type. One of the breakthrough on modular representation theory of symmetric groups goes back to the celebrated paper of \textit{J. Scopes} [J. Algebra 142, No. 2, 441--455 (1991; Zbl 0736.20008)]. Finally, their main theorems say that for given two \(p\)-blocks \(B_1\) and \(B_2\) of symmetric groups of weight \(2\) such that their \(p\)-cores are hook partitions, \(B_1\) and \(B_2\) are Morita equivalent if and only if \(B_2\) or its conjugate block is in the same Scopes class as \(B_1\).