Alperin's weight conjecture in terms of linear source modules and trivial source modules (Q2776259)

Alperin's weight conjecture, in the Knörr-Robinson reformulation, asserts that the alternating sum \(\sum_{\sigma\in\widetilde\Delta_p(G)}(-1)^{|\sigma|}l(B_\sigma)\) vanishes whenever \(B\) is a \(p\)-block of positive defect of a finite group \(G\). Here \(\widetilde\Delta_p(G)\) denotes the simplicial complex of chains \(\sigma\) of nontrivial \(p\)-subgroups of \(G\) (including the empty chain), \(|\sigma|\) denotes the number of subgroups in \(\sigma\), \(B_\sigma\) denotes the sum of blocks of the stabilizer \(G_\sigma\) of \(\sigma\) in Brauer correspondence with \(B\), and \(l(B_\sigma)\) denotes the number of simple modules in \(B_\sigma\). The author shows that the alternating sum does not change its value when \(l(B_\sigma)\) is replaced by the number of indecomposable linear (or trivial) source modules in \(B_\sigma\).NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0977.00027].