Conjugation in Brauer algebras and applications to character theory. (Q640932)

The Brauer algebra has a basis of diagrams and these generate a monoid \(H\) consisting of scalar multiples of diagrams. In this paper the author determines three types of conjugation in \(H\) and defines Brauer characters for Brauer algebras which share many of the properties of Brauer characters defined for finite groups over a field of prime characteristic. Furthermore, the author reformulates and extends the theory of characters for Brauer algebras as introduced by Ram to the case when the Brauer algebra is not semisimple.