New developments in the representation theory of finite groups
This survey gives an account of the recent proofs of the McKay conjecture and Brauer's height zero conjecture, together with the necessary background from ordinary and modular character theory. For a finite group \(G\), a prime \(p\) and a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup \(P\) of \(G\), the McKay conjecture asserts that\N\[\N|\mathrm{Irr}_{p'}(G)|=|\mathrm{Irr}_{p'}(N_G(P))|,\N\]\Nwhere \(\mathrm{Irr}_{p'}(G)\) denotes the set of irreducible complex characters of \(G\) whose degrees are not divisible by \(p\). Brauer's height zero conjecture states that a defect group \(D\) of a \(p\)-block \(B\) is abelian if and only if every character in \(\mathrm{Irr}(B)\) has height zero.\N\NThe discussion of the McKay conjecture follows its reduction to the inductive McKay condition for non-abelian finite simple groups and the subsequent verification of this condition. For groups of Lie type in non-defining characteristic, the principal tools include Sylow \(d\)-tori, \(d\)-Harish-Chandra theory and the analysis of automorphisms and character extensions. The remaining technically difficult case, concerning groups of type \(D_n\), was completed by \textit{M. Cabanes} and \textit{B. Späth} [Ann. Math. (2) 203, No. 3, 933--1032 (2026; Zbl 08212930)], yielding the McKay conjecture for all finite groups and all primes.\N\NThe treatment of Brauer's height zero conjecture separates its two implications. The implication from abelian defect groups to height zero is obtained through a reduction to blocks of quasi-simple groups and detailed results on their block structure. For the converse implication, the proof for the prime \(2\) follows from the inductive Alperin-McKay condition, whereas the proof for odd primes uses a different argument based on the structure of a minimal counterexample and character-theoretic results for quasi-simple groups. The final part discusses related open problems, including the Alperin weight conjecture, Dade's conjecture, the Alperin-McKay conjecture and Brauer's \(k(B)\)-conjecture. It also records the dependence of the known proofs on the classification of finite simple groups and the question of finding classification-independent explanations for these global-local phenomena.
- A Frobenius theorem for blocks
- A reduction theorem for Dade's projective conjecture
- A reduction theorem for the Alperin weight conjecture.
- A reduction theorem for the Alperin-McKay conjecture.
- A reduction theorem for the blockwise Alperin weight conjecture.
- A reduction theorem for the Galois–McKay conjecture
- A reduction theorem for the McKay conjecture.
- Above the Glauberman correspondence.
- Arithmetic results on orbits of linear groups
- Blocks with cyclic defect groups
- Brauer characters and coprime action
- Brauer's Height Conjecture for p-Solvable Groups
- Brauer's height zero conjecture
- Brauer's height zero conjecture for central quotients of special linear and special unitary groups
- Brauer's height zero conjecture for principal blocks
- Brauer's height zero conjecture for quasi-simple groups
- Brauer's height zero conjecture for the 2-blocks of maximal defect.
- Character correspondences in finite general linear, unitary and symmetric groups
- Character theory and the McKay conjecture
- Character theory of finite groups.
- Characters and generation of Sylow 2-subgroups
- Characters of odd degree
- Characters of p'-degree in solvable groups
- Characters of Reductive Groups over a Finite Field. (AM-107)
- Characters of relative \(p^\prime\)-degree over normal subgroups
- Characters of Solvable and Symplectic Groups
- Counting characters in blocks, II.
- Counting characters in blocks. I
- Counting conjectures and e-local structures in finite reductive groups
- Dade's conjecture for 2-blocks of symmetric groups
- Dade's conjecture for symmetric groups
- Dade's projective conjecture for \(p\)-solvable groups
- Derived categories and Deligne-Lusztig varieties.
- Derived categories and Deligne-Lusztig varieties. II.
- Derived categories and stable equivalence
- Derived equivalences for symmetric groups and \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\)-categorification.
- Donovan's conjecture, blocks with abelian defect groups and discrete valuation rings
- Equivariance and extendibility in finite reductive groups with connected center.
- Extending Brauer's height zero conjecture to blocks with nonabelian defect groups.
- EXTENSIONS OF CHARACTERS IN TYPE D AND THE INDUCTIVE MCKAY CONDITION, I
- Extensions of characters in type D and the inductive McKay condition. II
- Extensions of nilpotent blocks
- Extensions of unipotent characters and the inductive McKay condition.
- Generalized Harish-Chandra theory for unipotent characters of finite classical groups
- Generic Sylow theorems for the reductive groups over finite fields
- Height 0 characters of finite groups of Lie type
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- Inductive Conditions of Alperin Weight Conjecture
- Inductive McKay condition in defining characteristic.
- Irreducible representations of odd degree
- Jordan correspondence and block distribution of characters
- Linear algebraic groups and finite groups of Lie type.
- Local functions on finite groups
- Locally Determined Functions and Alperin's Conjecture
- Lusztig induction and \(\ell\)-blocks of finite reductive groups
- McKay numbers and heights of characters.
- Modular representations of finite groups and Lie theory
- Morita equivalences and the inductive blockwise Alperin weight condition for type 𝖠
- Morita Theory for Derived Categories
- New refinements of the McKay conjecture for arbitrary finite groups
- On blocks of finite reductive groups and twisted induction
- On Brauer's height zero conjecture
- On Brauer’s height 0 conjecture
- On semisimple classes and component groups in type $\mathsf{D}$
- On the p-blocks of symmetric and alternating groups and their covering groups
- On the classification of \(l\)-blocks of finite groups of Lie type
- On the indecomposable representations of a finite group
- On the inductive McKay condition in the defining characteristic.
- On the number of simple modules in a block of a finite group
- On the unipotent \(l\)-blocks of finite reductive groups when \(l\) is bad
- Quasi-isolated blocks and Brauer's height zero conjecture.
- Some Open Problems on Coprime Action and Character Correspondences
- Some Remarks on a Conjecture of Alperin
- Strengthening the McKay conjecture to include local fields and local Schur indices.
- Sylow \(d\)-tori of classical groups and the McKay conjecture. II.
- The Alperin-McKay and Brauer's height zero conjecture for the prime 2
- The blocks of finite general linear and unitary groups
- The Characters of the Finite General Linear Groups
- The inductive Alperin-McKay and blockwise Alperin weight conditions for blocks with cyclic defect groups and odd primes
- The Inductive McKay Condition for Simple Groups Not of Lie Type
- The McKay conjecture and central isomorphic character triples
- The McKay conjecture and Galois automorphisms.
- The McKay conjecture for exceptional groups and odd primes.
- The McKay conjecture is true for the sporadic simple groups
- The McKay-Navarro conjecture for the prime 2
- The number of blocks with a given defect group
- The solution of the \(k(GV)\)-problem.
- Vertices and sources
- Weight conjectures for fusion systems
- Weights and vertices for characters of -separable groups
- Weights for Classical Groups
- Weights for symmetric and general linear groups
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