Ghost numbers of group algebras. II.

DOI10.1007/S10468-015-9519-XMaRDI QIDQ2355239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Daniel Christensen, Gaohong Wang

Publication date 21 July 2015

Published in Algebras and Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5682

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsghost mapsghost numbersgroup algebrasstable module categoriesTate cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Module categories in associative algebras (16D90) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42)

Abstract: We study several closely related invariants of the group algebra $kG$ of a finite group. The basic invariant is the ghost number, which measures the failure of the generating hypothesis and involves finding non-trivial composites of maps each of which induces the zero map in Tate cohomology ("ghosts"). The related invariants are the simple ghost number, which considers maps which are stably trivial when composed with any map from a suspension of a simple module, and the strong ghost number, which considers maps which are ghosts after restriction to every subgroup of $G$. We produce the first computations of the ghost number for non-$p$-groups, e.g., for the dihedral groups at all primes, as well as many new bounds. We prove that there are close relationships between the three invariants, and make computations of the new invariants for many families of groups.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group, \(k\) be a field whose characteristic \(p\) divides the order of \(G\) and \(\mathsf{StMod}(kG)\) the stable module category of the group algebra \(kG\). A map in \(\mathsf{StMod}(kG)\) is called a ghost if it induces the zero map in Tate cohomology. The ghost number of \(kG\) is the smallest number \(n\) such that every composite of \(n\) ghosts in \(\mathsf{Thick}\langle k\rangle\) is trivial; \(\mathsf{Thick}\langle k\rangle\) denotes the thick subcategory of \(\mathsf{StMod}(kG)\) generated by the trivial module. The aim of this paper is a contribution for the computation of ghost numbers for finite groups. For this, the authors introduce the simple ghost number of \(kG\) and the strong ghost number of \(kG\), they compute these invariants in certain cases and they prove some relationships between them. For part I see [the authors, ibid. 18, No. 1, 1-33 (2015; Zbl 1331.20009)].

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