Upper bounds for eigenvalue multiplicities of almost cyclic elements in irreducible representations of simple algebraic groups (Q6051909)

In the paper under review, the author studies rational irreducible representations of simple algebraic groups in which some non-central semisimple element has at most one eigenvalue of multiplicity greater than 1. The main result is Theorem 1.1: Let \(G\) be a simple algebraic group of rank \(n\) and \(V\) an irreducible \(G\)-module. Let \(s \in G\) be a regular semisimple element and let \(m_{s}(V)\) be the maximum of the eigenvalue multiplicities of \(s\) on \(V\). Suppose that at most one eigenvalue multiplicity of \(s\) on \(V\) exceeds 1. Then \(m_{s}(V) \leq n+1\). More precise details on the consequences of the hypotheses of Theorem 1.1 are provided in Theorem 1.2. Another result is a special case of the main theorem of [\textit{R. Guralnick} et al., Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 78, No. 1, 167--214 (1999; Zbl 1041.20035)] (Theorem 1.5): Let \(G\) be a quasi-simple group of Lie type in defining characteristic \(p > 0\) and \(q\) a \(p\)-power. Let \(s \in G\) be a non-central semisimple element and let \(\rho : G \rightarrow \mathrm{GL}_{n}(q)\), \(n > 9\), be an irreducible representation such that \(\rho(g)\) is similar to \(\mathrm{diag}(\mathrm{Id}_{m}, M)\) where \(M \in \mathrm{GL}_{n-m}(q)\) is irreducible. Suppose that \(m < n/2\). Then \(G\) is classical and \(\rho\) is nearly natural.