Multiplicity-free permutation representations of finite linear groups

DOI10.1007/BF01164008MaRDI QIDQ1066258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas F. J. Inglis, Martin W. Liebeck, Jan Saxl

Publication date 1986

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/173737

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupsdistance-transitive graphsfinite simple groupsirreducible characterspermutation characterprimitive multiplicity- free permutation representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

A permutation representation of a group \(G\) on a set \(\Omega\) is said to be multiplicity-free if the associated permutation character \(\pi\) of \(G\) satisfies \((\pi,\chi)_ G\leq 1\) for all irreducible characters \(\chi\) of \(G\). Any such representation is transitive, so that \(\pi =1^ G_ H\), where \(\alpha\in \Omega\) and \(H=G_{\alpha}\). It is of interest to determine the multiplicity-free permutation representations of the finite simple groups and their automorphism groups -- for example, such results are of use in classifying distance-transitive graphs. For the alternating and symmetric groups the problem was solved by the third author [in Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 49, 337--353 (1981; Zbl 0454.20010)]. In this paper all the primitive multiplicity-free permutation representations of any group with socle \(\text{PSL}_ n(q)\), where \(n\geq 8\), are determined. There are several interesting families of such representations: for example, if \(G=\text{GL}_ n(q)\) and \(H\) is the normalizer of one of the subgroups \(\text{GL}_ n(q^{1/2})\), \(\text{GU}_ n(q^{1/2})\), \(\text{Sp}_ n(q)\) and \(\text{GL}_{n}(q^ 2)\) (with \(q\) square in the first two cases and \(n\) even in the latter two), then \(1^ G_ H\) is multiplicity-free. This is due to \textit{R. Gow} [Math. Z. 188, 45--54 (1984; Zbl 0564.20020)] in the first two cases, to \textit{A. A. Klyachko} [Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 261, 275--278 (1981; Zbl 0496.20031)] in the third, and is Theorem 2 of this paper in the last case.

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