Glauberman correspondents and extensions of nilpotent block algebras. (Q2890313)

Let \(G\) and \(A\) be finite groups of coprime orders such that \(A\) is solvable and acts on \(G\). The Glauberman correspondence is a bijection between \(\text{Irr}(G)^A\), the set of \(A\)-stable irreducible characters of \(G\), and \(\text{Irr}(G^A)\), the set of irreducible characters of \(G^A\), the group of \(A\)-fixed points on \(G\). Let \(p\) be a prime, and let \(B\) be an \(A\)-stable \(p\)-block of \(G\) such that a defect group \(P\) of \(B\) is contained in \(D^A\).NEWLINENEWLINE \textit{A. Watanabe} has proved [J. Algebra 216, No. 2, 548-565 (1999; Zbl 0936.20006)] that the irreducible characters of \(B\) are \(A\)-stable and that their Glauberman correspondents are the irreducible characters of a \(p\)-block \(w(B)\) of \(G^A\). Moreover, there exists a perfect isometry between \(B\) and \(w(B)\).NEWLINENEWLINE The authors show that whenever \(B\) covers an \(A\)-stable nilpotent \(p\)-block of an \(A\)-stable normal subgroup \(H\) of \(G\) such that \(G=G^AH\) then there exists a basic Morita equivalence between \(B\) and \(w(B)\). Earlier results by Harris, Linckelmann, Koshitani and Michler follow from this result. A key ingredient in the proof of the main result of the paper is a theorem by \textit{B. Külshammer} and \textit{L. Puig} on extensions of nilpotent blocks [Invent. Math. 102, No. 1, 17-71 (1990; Zbl 0739.20003)]. The authors extend this theorem and simplify its proof.