`Norman involutions' and tensor products of unipotent Jordan blocks

DOI10.1007/S11856-018-1812-ZMaRDI QIDQ2631884zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. P. Glasby, Cheryl E. Praeger, Binzhou Xia

Publication date 16 May 2019

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06860

zbMATH Keywords

tensor productsJordan blocksnilpotent matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: A good knowledge of the Jordan canonical form (JCF) for a tensor product of `Jordan blocks' is key to understanding the actions of $p$-groups of matrices in characteristic $p$. The JCF corresponds to a certain partition which depends on the characteristic $p$, and the study of these partitions dates back to Aitken's work in 1934. Equivalently each JCF corresponds to a certain permutation $pi$ introduced by Norman in 1995. These permutations $pi=pi(r,s,p)$ depend on the dimensions $r$, $s$ of the Jordan blocks, and on $p$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for $pi(r,s,p)$ to be trivial, building on work of M.J. Barry. We show that when $pi(r,s,p)$ is nontrivial, it is an involution involving reversals. Finally, we prove that the group $G(r,p)$ generated by $pi(r,s,p)$ for all $s$, `factors' as a wreath product corresponding to the factorisation $r=ab$ as a product of its $p^{\prime }$-part $a$ and $p$-part $b$: precisely $G(r,p)={sfS}_{a}wr{sfD}_b$ where ${sfS}_a$ is a symmetric group of degree $a$, and ${sfD}_b$ is a dihedral group of degree $b$.

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• On a question of Glasby, Praeger, and Xia.

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