Stability of the centers of the symplectic group rings Z [S p₂ n(q)]

Abstract: We investigate the structure constants of the center

m a t h c a l H_{n}

of the group algebra

S p_{n} (q)

over a finite field. The reflection length on the group

G L_{2 n} (q)

induces a filtration on the algebras

m a t h c a l H_{n}

. We prove that the structure constants of the associated filtered algebra

m a t h c a l S_{n}

are independent of

n

. As a technical tool in the proof, we determine the growth of the centralizers under the embedding

S p_{m} (q) s u b s e t S p_{m + l} (q)

and we show that the index of the centralizer of

g i n S p_{m} (q)

in the centralizer of

g i n S p_{m + k}

is equal to

q^{2 l d} | S p_{r + l} (q) | | S p_{r} (q) |^{- 1}

for some

d

and

r

which are uniquely determined by the conjugacy class of

g

in

G L_{2 n} (q) .

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