On the orthogonality coefficients for character tables of the Green ring of a finite group (Q793839)

A(G) denotes the Green ring formed from (\({\mathbb{C}}\)-combinations of) finite-dimensional kG-modules M, where k is an algebraically closed field of characteristic p and G is a finite group. A species of A(G) is a \({\mathbb{C}}\)-algebra epimorphism \(\phi:A(G)\to {\mathbb{C}}.\) A(G) has a \({\mathbb{C}}\)-algebra direct summand A(G,CYC) with basis the indecomposable modules with cyclic vertex. A study is made of those species of A(G), nonzero on A(G,CYC), i.e. species of A(G,CYC). This last is semisimple of finite dimension n. A nonsingular form on A(G) is given by \((M,N)=\dim_ kHom_{kG}(M,N).\) Indeed each indecomposable M has a dual element \(\hat M\) in A(G), i.e. \((L,\hat M)=\delta_{LM};\) \(\hat M\) is the head of M when M is projective and otherwise comes from the Auslander-Reiten sequence terminating at M. Two tables (\(n\times n)\), \(U=(\phi(M))\) and \(T=(\phi(\hat M))\) of species values on A(G,CYC), are considered. The second differs from the atom table of \textit{D. J. Benson} and \textit{R. A. Parker} [J. Algebra 87, 290- 331 (1984; reviewed above)]. However similar orthogonality relations hold: There exist complex numbers \(m_ 1,...,m_ n\) so that \(\bar U\cdot diag(m_ 1,...,m_ n)\cdot T^ t=I,\) where \(\bar U\) is obtained from U by permuting the rows of U indexed by indecomposables to their contragredients. Again the \(m_ i\) or \(c_ i=1/m_ i\) are different from those of Benson and Parker; in the orthogonality relations for ordinary or Brauer characters, \(c_ i\) is the order of the centralizer of an appropriate element of G. The main thrust of the paper concerns properties of sums of the \(m_ i's\), their positiveness for the cyclic origin case, algebraic integer properties of the \(c_ i\), reduction theorem for the calculation of the \(m_ i\) to p-hypoelementary subgroups (origins of the \(\phi\) 's), full detail of the cyclic origin case and reduction of this last to the cyclic p-group case, originally studied by Green in beginning this subject.