Constructing characters of Sylow p-subgroups of finite Chevalley groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.06.039zbMATH Open1370.20006arXiv1512.02678OpenAlexW2963159878MaRDI QIDQ324239FDOQ324239

Simon M. Goodwin, Tung Le, Alessandro Paolini, Kay Magaard

Publication date: 10 October 2016

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $q$ be a power of a prime $p$, let $G$ be a finite Chevalley group over $mathbb{F}_q$ and let $U$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$; we assume that $p$ is not a very bad prime for $G$. We explain a procedure of reduction of irreducible complex characters of $U$, which leads to an algorithm whose goal is to obtain a parametrization of the irreducible characters of $U$ along with a means to construct these characters as induced characters. A focus in this paper is determining the parametrization when $G$ is of type $mathrm{F}_4$, where we observe that the parametrization is "uniform" over good primes $p>3$, but differs for the bad prime $p=3$. We also explain how it has been applied for all groups of rank $4$ or less.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02678

zbMATH Keywords

charactersChevalley groupsSylow \(p\)-subgroups

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)

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