Restricting supercharacters of the finite group of unipotent uppertriangular matrices.

zbMATH Open1190.20039arXiv0712.1237MaRDI QIDQ1010928FDOQ1010928

Authors: Nathaniel Thiem, Vidya Venkateswaran 

Publication date: 7 April 2009

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well-known that the representation theory of the finite group of unipotent upper-triangular matrices $U_n$ over a finite field is a wild problem. By instead considering approximately irreducible representations (supercharacters), one obtains a rich combinatorial theory analogous to that of the symmetric group, where we replace partition combinatorics with set-partitions. This paper studies the supercharacter theory of a family of subgroups that interpolate between $U_{n-1}$ and $U_n$. We supply several combinatorial indexing sets for the supercharacters, supercharacter formulas for these indexing sets, and a combinatorial rule for restricting supercharacters from one group to another. A consequence of this analysis is a Pieri-like restriction rule from $U_n$ to $U_{n-1}$ that can be described on set-partitions (analogous to the corresponding symmetric group rule on partitions).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1237

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zbMATH Keywords

irreducible representationsrestrictionssupercharactersset-partitionsgroups of unipotent upper-triangular matricessupercharacter formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

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