Iterative character constructions for algebra groups.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2011.05.029MaRDI QIDQ645219zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Marberg

Publication date 8 November 2011

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2191

zbMATH Keywords

algebra groupsirreducible charactersirreducible constituentsKirillov functionsorthogonal characterspattern groupssupercharactersunitriangular groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: We construct a family of orthogonal characters of an algebra group which decompose the supercharacters defined by Diaconis and Isaacs. Like supercharacters, these characters are given by nonnegative integer linear combinations of Kirillov functions and are induced from linear supercharacters of certain algebra subgroups. We derive a formula for these characters and give a condition for their irreducibility; generalizing a theorem of Otto, we also show that each such character has the same number of Kirillov functions and irreducible characters as constituents. In proving these results, we observe as an application how a recent computation by Evseev implies that every irreducible character of the unitriangular group $U{T}_n(q)$ of unipotent $nimesn$ upper triangular matrices over a finite field with $q$ elements is a Kirillov function if and only if $nleq12$. As a further application, we discuss some more general conditions showing that Kirillov functions are characters, and describe some results related to counting the irreducible constituents of supercharacters.

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