On contractibility of the orbit space of a G-poset of Brauer pairs

DOI10.1006/JABR.1998.7644MaRDI QIDQ1284237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Laurence Barker

Publication date 1 December 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1998.7644

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-blocksBrauer pairsBrown complexescontractible orbit spacesdefect groupsfinite groupssimplicial complexes of chains of \(p\)-subgroupsWebb's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10)

Review text

\textit{P. Symonds} [Comment. Math. Helv. 73, No. 3, 400-405 (1998; Zbl 0911.20020)], proved Webb's conjecture that, for a finite group \(G\) and a prime \(p\) dividing \(| G|\), the \(G\)-simplicial complex of chains of nontrivial \(p\)-subgroups of \(G\) has a contractible orbit space. The paper under review deals with generalizations of this theorem. One of its main results shows that, for a \(p\)-block \(b\) of positive defect in a finite group \(G\), the \(G\)-simplicial complex of chains of Brauer pairs \((P,e)\) strictly containing \((1,b)\) has a contractible orbit space.

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