On the principal blocks of <i>F</i>[Sfr ]₁₁ and <i>F</i>[Sfr ]₁₂ over a field of characteristic 3 (Q4493483)

The study of the representation theory of blocks of symmetric group algebras has focused on blocks that have elementary Abelian defect groups. In [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 153, No. 1, 79-106 (2000; Zbl 0986.20013)], the author began to investigate blocks whose defect groups are non-Abelian. In particular, that work studied the principal blocks of the group algebras \(F{\mathfrak S}_9\) and \(F{\mathfrak S}_{10}\) over an algebraically closed field \(F\) of characteristic 3. In this work, the author extends his investigations to the principal blocks of the group algebras \(F{\mathfrak S}_{11}\) and \(F{\mathfrak S}_{12}\). As in the previous paper, he constructs the Ext-quiver and shows that there are no self-extensions of simple modules and in general the \(\text{Ext}^1\)-space between two simple modules is at most one-dimensional. However, some differences arise in comparison to the principal blocks of \(F{\mathfrak S}_9\) and \(F{\mathfrak S}_{10}\). For those, the Ext-quivers are bipartite and the principal indecomposable modules have a common Loewy length. In contrast, for the principal block of \(F{\mathfrak S}_{11}\), the Ext-quiver is still bipartite but the principal indecomposable modules no longer have a common Loewy length. This is shown by explicit computation of the Loewy structures of three principal indecomposable modules. For the principal block of \(F{\mathfrak S}_{12}\), it is shown that the Ext-quiver is no longer bipartite. The author notes that these differences are indirectly due to some entries of the decomposition matrices being 2 in the case of \({\mathfrak S}_{11}\) and 3 in the case of \({\mathfrak S}_{12}\).