Cartan invariants of symmetric groups and Iwahori-Hecke algebras.

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDP060zbMATH Open1237.20004arXiv0809.4457OpenAlexW3104960502MaRDI QIDQ3402218FDOQ3402218

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Publication date: 2 February 2010

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: K"{u}lshammer, Olsson and Robinson conjectured that a certain set of numbers determined the invariant factors of the $ell$-Cartan matrix for $S_n$ (equivalently, the invariant factors of the Cartan matrix for the Iwahori-Hecke algebra $mathcal{H}_n(q)$, where $q$ is a primitive $ell$th root of unity). We call these invariant factors Cartan invariants. In a previous paper, the second author calculated these Cartan invariants when $ell=p^r$, $p$ prime, and $rleqp$ and went on to conjecture that the formulae should hold for all $r$. Another result was obtained, which is surprising and counterintuitive from a block theoretic point of view. Namely, given the prime decomposition $ell=p_1^{r_1}\mathrm{...}{p}_k^{r_k}$, the Cartan matrix of an $ell$-block of $S_n$ is a product of Cartan matrices associated to $p_i^{r_i}$-blocks of $S_n$. In particular, the invariant factors of the Cartan matrix associated to an $ell$-block of $S_n$ can be recovered from the Cartan matrices associated to the $p_i^{r_i}$-blocks. In this paper, we formulate an explicit combinatorial determination of the Cartan invariants of $S_n$--not only for the full Cartan matrix, emph{but for an individual block}. We collect evidence for this conjecture, by showing that the formulae predict the correct determinant of the $ell$-Cartan matrix. We then go on to show that Hill's conjecture implies the conjecture of KOR.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4457

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zbMATH Keywords

blockssymmetric groupsCartan invariantsCartan matricesIwahori-Hecke algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Hecke algebras and their representations (20C08) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

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