Some conjectures and their consequences for tensor products of modules over a finite \(p\)-group (Q2182335)

The author presents some conjectures about tensor products of modular representations for a finite \(p\)-group in characteristic \(p\), for \(p\in\{2,3\}\). The easiest to state is that if \(M\) is a module of odd dimension for a 2-group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 2, then \(k\) is the only direct summand of \(M\otimes M^*\) of odd dimension, and the remaining indecomposable summands have dimension divisible by 4. As a consequence, the odd dimensional modules form an abelian group, where the composition law is to take the unique indecomposable summand of odd dimension of the tensor product, and where the inverse of an odd dimensional module is its dual. In characteristic 3 the conjectures are more complicated, and in larger characteristics it is not at all clear what the corresponding conjectures should be. A number of theorems and examples relating to these conjectures are included.