Relative stable equivalences of Morita type for the principal blocks of finite groups and relative Brauer indecomposability (Q6082371)

In representation theory of finite groups, understanding the block algebras up to a certain type of equivalence is important. In this article under review, the authors focus on stable equivalences of Morita type relative to a central subgroup between principal block algebras of two finite groups. This equivalence is a generalization of the notion of stable equivalence of Morita type, a notion which is introduced by M. Broué who also developed a method for constructing stable equivalences of Morita type between principal block algebras. There are three important results in the paper. The first one, which is Theorem 1.1, gives a method for constructing relative \(Z\)-stable equivalences between the \(p\)-blocks of two finite groups \(G\) and \(G'\) where both of them contains \(Z\) as a central \(p\)-subgroup. This method uses the Scott \((G\times G')\)-module; and Theorem 1.1 claims that a necessary and sufficient condition for principal blocks of such groups to be relatively \(Z\)-equivalent is that the Brauer quotients of the Scott module with respect to \(\Delta Q\) to induce a Morita equivalence between the principal \(p\)-blocks of \(C_G(Q)\) and \(C_{G'}(Q)\) where \(Q\) is a \(p\)-subgroup which contains \(Z\) properly. The second result, which is Theorem 1.2, generalizes Theorem 2.1 of [\textit{M. Linckelmann}, Math. Z. 223 No 1, 87--100 (1996; Zbl 0866.16004)]. Theorem 1.2 of the paper gives an equivalent condition for a relative stable equivalence between block algebras to be a Morita equivalence. Further, the authors generalize the notion of Brauer indecomposability to the notion of Brauer indecomposability relative to a \(p\)-subgroup and they gave an equivalent condition for a Scott module to be relatively Brauer indecomposable by generalizing the results given in \textit{H. Ishioka} and \textit{N. Kunugi}, J. Alg. 470, 441--449 (2017; Zbl 1378.20012)] in Theorem 1.3. The notion of relative stable equivalence is first introduced in \textit{L. Wang} and \textit{J. Zhang}, J. Pure Appl. Alg. 222 No 9, 2703--2717 (2018; Zbl 1397.20025)] in a more general framework.