Brauer trees in \(GL(n,q)\) (Q797677)

Given a finite group G and a field k of characteristic \(p>0\), each projective indecomposable k[G]-module has a unique simple quotient, and this gives a bijection between the set of isomorphism classes of projective indecomposable k[G]-modules P and simple k[G]-modules S; their common cardinality is the number of p-regular conjugacy classes of G, and the matrix (P:S) of the multiplicities is called the Cartan matrix. As k[G] is both injective and projective, the simple quotient of a projective indecomposable module appears also as its unique simple submodule. The connected components of the graph associated to the Cartan matrix define the partition of the set of isomorphism classes of projective indecomposable k[G]-modules into blocks. Assume that each simple k[G]-module is absolutely simple. Then the Cartan matrix is symmetric. Let \(d(P)=ord_ pG-ord_ p\deg P;\) the defect d(B) of the block B is Max d(P) on \(P\in B.\) Fix a number field K and a prime ideal \(\wp\) above p; assume K to be a splitting field of G. Each simple representation R of G over K has a reduction mod \(\wp\), and the multiplicities in its reduction of the simple k[G]-modules (k is the residue field) gives the decomposition matrix D built on the classes of simple k[G]-modules and the simple classes of K[G]-modules; the Cartan matrix is \(D^ tD\). Given a block B with defect d there is a conjugacy class C with \(d=ord_ p\#C\) and \(ord_{\wp}\#CR(C)<1\) where R(C) is the reduced character of \(R\in B\); the defect group of B is a group isomorphic to a p-Sylow subgroup of the centralizer in G of an element of C. This article deals with the group \(GL_ n\) over a finite field of characteristic not p, and studies the blocks with cyclic defect groups. It uses the description by G. Lusztig of the irreducible representations of G and their classification into blocks as explained by the authors [in Invent. Math. 69, 109-153 (1982; Zbl 0507.20007)]. The results are the identifications of the Brauer trees of such blocks.