The classification of torsion endo-trivial modules.

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2005.162.823zbMATH Open1110.20005arXiv0706.4081OpenAlexW2111176709MaRDI QIDQ2496971FDOQ2496971

Authors: Jacques Thévenaz, Jon F. Carlson 

Publication date: 26 July 2006

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is a major step in the classification of endotrivial modules over p-groups. Let G be a finite p-group and k be a field of characteristic p. A kG-module M is an endo-trivial module if {End_k(M)cong koplus F} as kG-modules, where F is a free module. The classification of endo-trivial modules is the crucial step for understanding the more general class of endo-permutation modules. The endo-permutation modules play an important role in module theory, in particular as source modules, and in block theory where they appear in the description of source algebras. Endo-trivial modules are also important in the study of both derived equivalences and stable equivalences of group algebras and block algebras. The collection of isomorphism classes of endo-trivial modules modulo projectives is an abelian group under tensor product. The main result of this paper is that this group is torsion free except in the case that G is cyclic, quaternion or semi-dihedral. Hence for any p-group which is not cyclic, quaternion or semi-dihedral and any finitely generated kG-module M, if M otimes_k M otimes_k ... otimes_k M cong k oplus P for some projective module P and some finite number of tensor products, then M cong k oplus Q for some projective module Q. The proof uses a reduction to the cases in which G is an extraspecial or almost extraspecial p-group, proved in a previous paper of the authors, and makes extensive use of the theory of support varieties for modules.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.4081

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zbMATH Keywords

finite \(p\)-groupsendo-trivial modulesDade groupsendo-permutation modulesmaximal elementary Abelian subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

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