The projective character tables of a solvable group \(2^6:(6\times 2)\) (Q2292327)

Summary: The Chevalley-Dickson simple group \(G_2(4)\) of Lie type \(G_2\) over the Galois field \(\mathrm{GF}(4)\) and of order \(251596800 = 2^{12} .3^3 .5^2 .7.13\) has a class of maximal subgroups of the form \(2^{4+6}:(A_5 \times 3)\), where \(2^{4+6}\) is a special 2-group with center \(Z(2^{4+6})=2^4\). Since \(2^4\) is normal in \(2^{4+6}:(A_5 \times 3)\), the group \(2^{4+6} : (A_5 \times 3)\) can be constructed as a nonsplit extension group of the form \(\overline{G} = 2^{4 \cdot} (2^6:(A_5 \times 3))\). Two inertia factor groups, \(H_1 = 2^6 :(A_5 \times 3)\) and \(H_2 = 2^6 :(6 \times 2)\), are obtained if \(\overline{G}\) acts on \(2^4\). In this paper, the author presents a method to compute all projective character tables of \(H_2\). These tables become very useful if one wants to construct the ordinary character table of \(\overline{G}\) by means of Fischer-Clifford theory. The method presented here is very effective to compute the irreducible projective character tables of a finite soluble group of manageable size.