A geometric approach to Quillen's conjecture

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2021-0033MaRDI QIDQ2068341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Antonio Díaz Ramos, Nadia Mazza

Publication date 19 January 2022

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02658

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-subgroupsclassical groupsQuillen's conjecturesimplicial complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Abstract: We introduce {em admissible collections} for a finite group $G$ and use them to prove that most of the finite classical groups in non-defining characteristic satisfy the {em Quillen dimension at $p$ property}, a strong version of Quillen's conjecture, at a given odd prime divisor $p$ of $|G|$. Compared to the methods in cite{AS1993}, our techniques are simpler.

Review text

Given a finite group \(G\) and a prime number \(p\) dividing the order of \(G,\) let \(\mathcal A_p(G)\) be the poset of all non-trivial elementary abelian \(p\)-subgroups of \(G\) ordered by inclusion, and let \(|\mathcal A_p(G)|\) be its realization as a topological space. In his seminal paper, \textit{D. Quillen} [Adv. Math. 28, 101--128 (1978; Zbl 0388.55007)] conjectured that if \(|\mathcal A_p(G)|\) is contractible, then \(G\) contains a non-trivial normal \(p\)-subgroup. \textit{M. Aschbacher} and \textit{S. D. Smith} [Ann. Math. (2) 137, No. 3, 473--529 (1993; Zbl 0782.20039)], tackling Quillen's conjecture, introduced for this purpose a stronger version, called the Quillen dimension at \(p\) property, involving reduced homology with rational coefficients. The authors introduce admissible collections for a finite group \(G\) and use them to prove that most of the finite classical groups in non-defining characteristic satisfy the Quillen dimension at \(p\) property, when \(p\) is an odd prime.

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