Characters of positive height in blocks of finite quasi-simple groups.

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNU171zbMATH Open1339.20007arXiv1405.3748OpenAlexW2963578520MaRDI QIDQ2949656FDOQ2949656

Authors: Olivier Brunat, Gunter Malle 

Publication date: 2 October 2015

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Eaton and Moret'o proposed an extension of Brauer's famous height zero conjecture on blocks of finite groups to the case of non-abelian defect groups, which predicts the smallest non-zero height in such blocks in terms of local data. We show that their conjecture holds for principal blocks of quasi-simple groups, for all blocks of finite reductive groups in their defining characteristic, as well as for all covering groups of symmetric and alternating groups. For the proof, we determine the minimal non-trivial character degrees of Sylow $p$-subgroups of finite reductive groups in characteristic~$p$. We provide some further evidence for blocks of groups of Lie type considered in cross characteristic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3748

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zbMATH Keywords

defect groupscharacter degreesfinite reductive groupsBrauer height zero conjecturefinite groups of Lie typefinite quasi-simple groupsprincipal blockblocks of finite groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

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