Normal supercharacter theories and their supercharacters

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.09.005zbMATH Open1443.20005arXiv1603.08569OpenAlexW2522333197MaRDI QIDQ330179FDOQ330179

F. Aliniaeifard

Publication date: 24 October 2016

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

Abstract: In order to find a tractable theory to substitute for the wild character theory of the group of $nimesn$ unipotent upper-triangular matrices over a finite field $mathbb{F}_q$, Andr'e and Yan introduced the notion of supercharacter theory. In this paper, we construct a supercharacter theory from an arbitrary set $S$ of normal subgroups of $G$. We call such supercharacter theory the normal supercharacter theory generated by $S$. It is shown that normal supercharacter theories are integral, and a recursive formula for supercharacters of the normal supercharacter theory is provided. The normal supercharacter theory provides many substitutions for wild character theories. Also, we indicate that the superclasses of the normal supercharacter theory generated by all normal subgroups of $G$ are given by certain values on the primitive central idempotents. We study the connection between the finest normal supercharacter theory and faithful irreducible characters. Moreover, an algorithm is presented to construct the supercharacter table of the finest normal supercharacter theory from the character table. Finally, We justify that normal supercharacter theories cannot be obtained by preceding supercharacter theory constructions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08569

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zbMATH Keywords

character theorylattice of normal subgroupssupercharacter theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30)

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