Projective group representations and centralizers: Character theory

DOI10.1006/JABR.1994.1231MaRDI QIDQ1335069zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Delvaux, Erna Nauwelaerts

Publication date 27 September 1994

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1994.1231

zbMATH Keywords

centralizersClifford theoryfinite groupsFrobenius algebrasindecomposable modulesorthogonality relationsprimitive central idempotentstrace functionstwisted group rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasi-Frobenius rings (16L60) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25)

Review text

In [ibid. 157, No. 1, 63-79 (1993; Zbl 0785.20009)] we studied the relationship between indecomposable modules over the twisted group rings \(R*_\alpha G\), \(R*_\alpha H\) and the centralizer \(S\) of \(R*_\alpha H\) in \(R*_\alpha G\), where \(R\) is a commutative ring (satisfying suitable conditions), \(G\) is a finite group with \(|G|^{-1}\in R\) and \(H<G\). These results are reviewed and sharpened in Section 1 and the corresponding character theory is developed in Section 2. This work can also be viewed as an extension of Clifford theory (dealing with normal subgroups). In Section 2 we present one of Clifford's theorems for indecomposable modules over twisted group rings. Furthermore, we derive orthogonality relations for trace functions on \(S\) and we express primitive central idempotents of \(S\) in terms of trace functions (Section 3). These results are presented in a more general context, namely for Frobenius algebras over rings. Section 4 deals with indecomposable modules and trace functions for algebras of the form \(\varepsilon A\varepsilon\), \(\varepsilon\) being an idempotent. We also focus on the relation between \(S\) and \(\varepsilon(R*_\alpha G)\varepsilon\), where \(\varepsilon\) is a primitive idempotent of \(R*_\alpha H\).

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• Schur rings and invariant subrings of group rings

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