A note on the Hambleton-Taylor-Williams conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2019.02.001MaRDI QIDQ2001407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Julia Semikina

Publication date 3 July 2019

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01510, http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-3EE7-1

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb{Z}G\)-modules\(G\)-theoryfinite groupsgroup algebrasmodular representationsnoetherian rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K_1) of group rings and orders (19B28) (Q)- and plus-constructions (19D06) Computations of higher (K)-theory of rings (19D50) Integral representations of finite groups (20C10) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Abstract: I. Hambleton, L. Taylor and B. Williams conjectured a general formula in spirit of H. Lenstra for the decomposition of $G_n(RG)$ for any finite group $G$ and noetherian ring $R.$ The conjectured decomposition was shown to hold for some large classes of finite groups. D. Webb and D. Yao discovered that the conjecture failed for the symmetric group $S_5$, but remarked that it still might be reasonable to expect the HTW-decomposition for solvable groups. In this paper we show that the solvable group $mathrmSL(2,mathbb{F}_3)$ is also a counterexample to the conjectured HTW-decomposition. Furthermore, we prove that for any finite group $G$ the rank of $G_1(mathbbZG)$ does not exceed the rank of the expression in the HTW-decomposition.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group \(G\) and \(R\) noetherian ring. Consider the \(G\)-theory \(G_i(RG) = K_i(\mathcal{M}(RG))\), \(i \ge 0\), where \(\mathcal{M}(RG)\) is the category of all finitely generated left \(RG\)-modules. \textit{I. Hambleton} et al. [J. Algebra 116, No. 2, 466--470 (1988; Zbl 0658.16019)] conjectured a general formula for the decomposition of \(G_n(RG)\), shown hold for some large classes of finite groups. \textit{D. L. Webb} [Invent. Math. 84, 73--89 (1986; Zbl 0589.55008); J. Pure Appl. Algebra 39, 177--195 (1986; Zbl 0589.16018)] and \textit{D. Webb} and \textit{D. Yao} [\(K\)-Theory 7, No. 6, 575--578 (1993; Zbl 0806.19001)] discovered that the conjecture does not hold for the symmetric group \(S_5\). In this paper, the author shows that the conjectured HTW-decomposition also fails for the solvable group \(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{F}_3)\). This is proved by comparing the rank \(R(G) = \operatorname{rank} G_1(\mathbb{Z}G)\) with the rank \(P(G)\) of \(G_1(\mathbb{Z}G)\) as predicted by the HTW-decomposition. Nevertheless, the author proves a general inequality estimating the number of modular irreducible representations of \(G\) in terms of the rational irreducible representations of \(G\), and as a corollary, it follows that \(P(G) \ge R(G)\) for any \(G\). This gives an explanation of the failure of the HTW-decomposition for \(G_1(\mathbb{Z}G)\) There are also some positive results: The HTW-decomposition correctly predicts the torsion for \(G_1(\mathbb{Z}G)\) and the rank of \(G_n(\mathbb{Z}G)\) for \(n \neq 1\).

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