The Number of Modular Characters in Certain p -Blocks

DOI10.1112/plms/s3-65.2.245zbMath0784.20002OpenAlexW1983331812MaRDI QIDQ4024970

Jørn B. Olsson

Publication date: 18 February 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s3-65.2.245

zbMATH Keywords

Alperin's weight conjecturesymmetric groupcovering groupsweightalternating groupsign\(p\)-blockirreducible modular characterspositive defect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

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