On tensor factorisation for representations of finite groups

DOI10.1017/S0004972700034365MaRDI QIDQ4470203zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Emanuele Pacifici

Publication date 22 June 2004

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0004972700034365

zbMATH Keywords

character correspondencescharactersinduction of representationsprimitive representationsquasi-primitive representationsrestrictions of representationstensor factorisations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25)

Review text

An irreducible representation \(D\) of a finite group \(G\) is called quasi-primitive if its restriction to any normal subgroup has pairwise equivalent irreducible constituents. If \(G\) is solvable such a representation \(D\) cannot be induced from a proper subgroup of \(G\) when \(D\) is faithful. The aim of this paper is to control and parametrise, in terms of the group structure of \(G\), all the possible ways of decomposing \(D\) as an inner tensor product of two projective representations of \(G\). Under the hypothesis that the restriction of \(D\) to the Fitting subgroup \(F\) is irreducible, the main result of this paper shows essentially that there is an explicit bijection between the set of two-factors decompositions of \(D\) and the set of normal subgroups of \(G\) lying between the centre \(Z\) and \(F\). The assumption of faithfulness of \(D\) can be easily removed. But the assumption of the irreducibility of the restriction of \(D\) to \(F\) is serious, even when \(D\) is assumed to be primitive instead of quasi-primitive. Tensor factorisation of quasi-primitive representations has been studied before from the point of view of characters. See \textit{P. A. Ferguson} and \textit{A. Turull} [Math. Z. 190, 583-604 (1985; Zbl 0577.20006)]. The author says it is worth stressing that their result on ``admissible sets of prime characters is different from hers, as the problem of describing all factorisations is not considered by them. To close with, the reviewer regards this paper as a substantial one, providing new insights in the representation and character theory of finite groups.

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