Certain subgroups of Weyl groups are split.

DOI10.1090/CONM/562/11133zbMATH Open1258.20007arXiv1006.0269OpenAlexW1660537270MaRDI QIDQ2895458FDOQ2895458

Authors: Daniel Goldstein, Robert Guralnick 

Publication date: 2 July 2012

Published in: New Trends in Noncommutative Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let C be the centralizer in a finite Weyl group of an elementary abelian 2-subgroup. We show that every complex representation of C can be realized over the field of rational numbers. The same holds for a Sylow 2-subgroup of C.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0269

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zbMATH Keywords

complex representationsfinite Weyl groupsSchur indicatorsFrobenius-Schur indicesrationality of representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

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