The period of periodic Young modules. (Q412019)

Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p\). Young modules for the symmetric group \(S_r\) on \(r\) letters form an important class of indecomposable \(kS_r\)-modules, and in particular those Young modules which are periodic have been classified (in terms of their indexing partitions) by Hemmer and Nakano. The author calculates the period of all periodic Young modules in all characteristics, and shows that it is dependent only on \(p\). For \(p\) odd he then calculates minimal projective resolutions of periodic Young modules lying in cyclic blocks of \(kS_r\) and in the principal \(p\)-block of \(kS_{2p}\). The methods employed are from modular representation theory, and in particular the Green correspondence is used.