scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1058193

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Authors M. R. Darafsheh

Publication date 13 November 1997

zbMATH Keywords

\(\lambda\)-flagsgeneral linear groups over finite fieldsgeometric charactersirreducible constituentspartitionspermutation characterssymmetric groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

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Let \(G=\text{GL}_n(q)\) be the general linear group over the finite field \({\mathbf F}_q\) with \(q\) elements and \(V:={\mathbf F}^n_q\). Let \(S=S_n\) be the symmetric group on \({\mathbf n}:=\{1,2,\dots,n\}\). For each partition \(\lambda=(\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\dots,\lambda_k)\) of \(n\), a \(\lambda\)-flag in \(V\) is a chain \(V_1\subset V_2\subset\dots\subset V_k=V\) of subspaces with \(\dim V_i=\sum^i_{j=1}\lambda_j\). The group \(G\) acts on the set of \(\lambda\)-flags by permuting them transitively; the corresponding permutation character is denoted by \(\chi_\lambda\) and is called a geometric character. Its irreducible constituents form the so called `unipotent characters' of \(G\). In a similar way, a \(\lambda\)-flag in \(\mathbf n\) is a chain \(X_1\subset X_2\subset\dots\subset X_k={\mathbf n}\) of subsets with \(|X_i|=\sum^i_{j=1}\lambda_j\); again \(S\) permutes the \(\lambda\)-flags transitively with corresponding permutation character \(\phi_\lambda\). Due to a theorem of Steinberg, the decomposition pattern into irreducible \(G\) or \(S\)-characters is the same for \(\chi_\lambda\) and \(\phi_\lambda\). This fact is used in the present paper to decompose explicitly the geometric characters of \(G\) for all partitions of the form \(\lambda=(n-k,\mu)\) with \(\mu\) a partition of \(k\) and \(k=1,2,3\) and 4. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0867.00022].

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