Isométries de caractères et équivalences de Morita ou dérivées. (Isometries of characters and Morita or derived equivalences) (Q803269)

Let R be a noetherian integral domain with quotient field K, and let A and B be R-orders. The main purpose of the paper under review is to show that in order to prove that certain functors induce (derived or Morita) equivalences between A and B it suffices (under suitable hypotheses) to do so after extending scalars to K. The corresponding results are then applied to blocks of finite groups, in particular to l-blocks of finite reductive groups in characteristic \(p\neq l\). The author introduces the notion of a regular l-block of such a group and shows that a regular l- block B is nilpotent with abelian defect group. It thus follows from general block theory that B is Morita equivalent to the group algebra of its defect group. The author is able to show that in the case under consideration a Morita equivalence is in fact induced by a certain l-adic cohomology group. Moreover, he conjectures that this is also true in a more general situation where B is no longer nilpotent and thus general block theory does no longer apply. He then reduces this conjecture to a problem in algebraic geometry.