On the characters of the Sylow p-subgroups of untwisted Chevalley groups Y_n(p^a)

DOI10.1112/S1461157016000401zbMATH Open1360.20008arXiv1508.00050OpenAlexW3123755500MaRDI QIDQ2970992FDOQ2970992

Authors: Frank Himstedt, Tung Le, Kay Magaard 

Publication date: 4 April 2017

Published in: LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $U{Y}_n(q)$ be a Sylow p-subgroup of an untwisted Chevalley group $Y_n(q)$ of rank n defined over $mathbb{F}_q$ where q is a power of a prime p. We partition the set $Irr(U{Y}_n(q))$ of irreducible characters of $U{Y}_n(q)$ into families indexed by antichains of positive roots of the root system of type $Y_n$. We focus our attention on the families of characters of $U{Y}_n(q)$ which are indexed by antichains of length 1. Then for each positive root $alpha$ we establish a one to one correspondence between the minimal degree members of the family indexed by $alpha$ and the linear characters of a certain subquotient $overline{T}_{a}lpha$ of $U{Y}_n(q)$. For $Y_n=A_n$ our single root character construction recovers amongst other things the elementary supercharacters of these groups. Most importantly though this paper lays the groundwork for our classification of the elements of $Irr(U{E}_i(q))$, $6leile8$ and $Irr(U{F}_4(q))$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00050

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zbMATH Keywords

Sylow \(p\)-subgrouplinear characterselementary supercharactersuntwisted Chevalley group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, (pi)-groups, (pi)-structure (20D20) 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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