On Lusztig's conjecture for connected and disconnected exceptional groups. (Q2460818)
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On Lusztig's conjecture for connected and disconnected exceptional groups. (English)
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16 November 2007
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Lusztig conjectured that the almost characters of a finite reductive group are up to scalar the same as the characteristic functions of the rational character sheaves defined on the corresponding algebraic group. The author now considers certain groups of type \(B_2\), \(G_2\) and \(F_4\). These groups come with an automorphism defining a twisted finite Chevalley group (a Suzuki group in case \(B_2\), a Ree group in cases \(G_2\), \(F_4\)). The conjecture is confirmed and tables are given. There is also a version where the character sheaves live on a coset of the identity component in a disconnected reductive group. The conjecture is checked for a disconnected group of type \(B_2\). In case \(F_4\) the picture is not complete yet. Tables are given, but it still needs to be shown they match the values of almost characters.
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Lusztig algorithm
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character sheaves
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Ree groups
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Suzuki groups
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cyclic extensions
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disconnected groups
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almost characters
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Lusztig conjecture
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characteristic functions
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irreducible characters
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finite reductive groups
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