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This book is the first to present the modular representation theory of finite groups from a character theoretic viewpoint. There are other approaches to this theory, e.g. using rings and modules. To get the full picture you may try to find a suitable balance between these approaches. This has been done in several previous books, e.g. by \textit{W. Feit} [The representation theory of finite groups (1982; Zbl 0493.20007)]\ and by \textit{H. Nagao, Y. Tsushima} [Representations of finite groups (1989; Zbl 0673.20002)]. Chosing a definite approach also has advantages as demonstrated by this book (and also by an earlier book of \textit{J. L. Alperin} [Local representation theory (1986; Zbl 0593.20003)], using modules). After an introductory chapter on algebras, Brauer characters are introduced in Chapter 2 and a number of fundamental properties are proved. Already here the book goes beyond other textbooks, e.g. by proving a result of Okuyama on groups, where all 2-modular character degrees are odd. Then follow chapters on blocks and the three main theorems in block theory. Each chapter contains nontrivial results which to the knowledge of the reviewer have not been in textbooks before like Robinson's nice theorem on the number of blocks with a given defect group. Chapter 7 deals with Glauberman's \(Z^*\)-theorem as an application of previous results. The next chapter considers in more detail induction and restriction of Brauer characters and Clifford theory. The final chapters deal with blocks in \(p\)-solvable groups and groups with a cyclic Sylow subgroup of order \(p\). This is a nice and well written book. It assumes knowledge of ordinary character theory, but otherwise it more or less starts from scratch. It presents deep results in an easily accessible way and features the textbook debut of many interesting theorems. Thus it is also valuable as a place of reference. Its style seems to be influenced by \textit{I. M. Isaacs}' excellent book on ordinary character theory [Character theory of finite groups (1976; Zbl 0337.20005)]. In the introduction the author expresses his deep admiration for the work of Richard Brauer, the founder of modular representation theory. Brauer might have enjoyed this book, because the character theoretic approach was featured prominently in his research.
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- The block theory of finite group algebras. Volume 1
- A module-theoretic interpretation of some character formula
- Real 2-blocks of characters of finite groups
- Blocks, character values, and centralizers of elements in solvable groups
- Counting characters in blocks with cyclic defect groups. I
- An answer to two questions of Brewster and Yeh on \(M\)-groups.
- Sylow normalizers and Brauer character degrees
- Morita equivalent blocks of symmetric groups
- Remarks on Harada's conjecture
- On weakly quasi-primitive characters of solvable groups
- Characters and Sylow 2-subgroups of maximal class revisited
- Brauer characters and normal Sylow p-subgroups
- Alperin-McKay natural correspondences in solvable and symmetric groups for the prime \(p=2\)
- On the blockwise modular isomorphism problem
- On characters of finite groups
- Blocks of small defect in alternating groups and squares of Brauer character degrees
- Brauer characters and fields of values
- Refinements of the orthogonality relations for blocks
- Blocks with Frobenius inertial quotients
- Characters of finite groups. Volume 1
- On blocks with one modular character
- Quasi-projective Brauer characters
- The blocks and weights of finite special linear and unitary groups
- An algorithm for computing Schur indices of characters
- Zeros of monomial Brauer characters
- On the prime graph question for integral group rings of 4-primary groups. II.
- Non-abelian composition factors of \(\ell\)-Brauer \(m\)-rational groups
- Large orbits of \(p\)-groups on characters and applications to character degrees.
- p-blocks relative to a character of a normal subgroup
- Even degree characters in principal blocks
- Classifying blocks with abelian defect groups of rank 3 for the prime 2
- Subgroups of \(\text{GL}_n(q)\) which fix sublattices of the subspace lattice
- Actions and characters in blocks.
- Defect groups, conjugacy classes and the Robinson map.
- Quadratic rational solvable groups.
- Simple proofs of some theorems in block theory of finite groups.
- A partition of characters associated to nilpotent subgroups
- On \(e\)-cuspidal pairs of finite groups of exceptional Lie type
- Brauer's height zero conjecture for principal blocks
- The \(\ell \)-modular representation of reductive groups over finite local rings of length two
- Restrictions of characters in \(p\)-solvable groups
- Groups with one or two super-Brauer character theories
- Large orbits of subgroups of solvable linear groups.
- Real Brauer characters
- Principal blocks with 5 irreducible characters
- The block graph of a finite group
- Jordan decomposition for the Alperin-McKay conjecture
- Character degrees in blocks and defect groups
- Character triple conjecture for p-solvable groups
- Cohomology of \(\mathrm{PSL}_2(q)\)
- Brauer character degrees and Sylow normalizers
- A bound on the diameter of the Brauer graph of a block of a solvable group
- On almost \(p\)-rational characters of \(p^{\prime}\)-degree
- Orthogonal stability
- Quiver representations of extended subgroup posets of finite groups
- On Huppert's \(\rho\)-\(\sigma\) conjecture for blocks
- Cartan matrices and Brauer's \(k(B)\)-conjecture V
- Real constituents of permutation characters
- Decomposition numbers and global properties
- Hall-Higman type theorems for exceptional groups of Lie type. I
- Morita equivalence classes of tame blocks of finite groups
- Characters, exponents and defects in \(p\)-solvable groups
- The modular isomorphism problem: a survey
- Jordan decomposition for weights and the blockwise Alperin weight conjecture
- On the Alperin-McKay conjecture for simple groups of type A
- Perfect isometries between blocks of complex reflection groups
- On restriction of characters to defect groups
- On Hilbert divisors of Brauer characters
- Decomposition numbers and local properties
- Brauer's height zero conjecture for two primes
- Tensor product Markov chains
- Character tables and defect groups
- On principal indecomposable degrees and Sylow subgroups
- Radical subgroups and the inductive blockwise Alperin weight conditions for \(\mathrm{PSp}_4(q)\)
- \(p\)-blocks relative to a character of a normal subgroup. II
- Survey on perfect isometries
- On Willems' conjecture on Brauer character degrees
- Monodromy groups of Kloosterman and hypergeometric sheaves
- A note on \(\pi \)-partial characters of \(\pi \)-separable groups
- Automorphisms of nonsplit extensions of \(2\)-groups by \(\mathrm{PSL}_2(q)\)
- \(p\)-parts of Brauer character degrees.
- Remarks on singular Cayley graphs and vanishing elements of simple groups
- Construction of the irreducible modular representations of a finite group
- Steinberg-like characters for finite simple groups
- What do the modular characters know?
- Basic local representation theory
- Some conjectures on Brauer character degrees
- Pseudo Frobenius numbers
- On the inductive blockwise Alperin weight condition for classical groups
- An extension of Watanabe's theorem for the Isaacs-Horimoto-Watanabe corresponding blocks.
- Bounds on the number of lifts of a Brauer character in a p-solvable group.
- Extra special defect groups of order p^3 and exponent p.
- On the construction of irreducible characters in \(p\)-blocks with normal metacyclic defect groups.
- 2-Brauer correspondent blocks with one simple module
- Dimensions of some binary codes arising from a conic in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q)\)
- Rational Brauer characters.
- Equivariance and extendibility in finite reductive groups with connected center.
- Proofs of two conjectures on the dimensions of binary codes
- On fully ramified Brauer characters.
- On Brauer's height zero conjecture
- Brauer characters and rationality.
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