Small-dimensional projective representations of symmetric and alternating groups.

DOI10.2140/ANT.2012.6.1773MaRDI QIDQ1950993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pham Huu Tiep, Alexander S. Kleshchev

Publication date 28 May 2013

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3123, http://msp.org/ant/2012/6-8/p05.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

branching rulescovering groups of alternating groupsdouble covers of symmetric groupsfaithful irreducible modulesmodular representationsprojective representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: We classify the irreducible projective representations of symmetric and alternating groups of minimal possible and second minimal possible dimensions, and get a lower bound for the third minimal dimension. On the way we obtain some new results on branching which might be of independent interest.

Review text

Working over an algebraically closed field of odd characteristic, the authors determine the faithful irreducible modules of smallest and second smallest dimension of the covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups. The degree of the covering groups is required to be at least 12. The paper also provides a lower bound for the dimensions of the remaining faithful irreducible modules. The main theorem is proved by induction and in the process the authors derive new results on branching which are of independent interest.

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