On the character degrees of Sylow p-subgroups of Chevalley groups G(p^f) of type E.

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2011-0055zbMATH Open1323.20013arXiv1009.2864OpenAlexW2563275360MaRDI QIDQ487115FDOQ487115

Authors: Tung Le, Kay Magaard 

Publication date: 19 January 2015

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $F_q$ be a field of characteristic $p$ with $q$ elements. It is known that the degrees of the irreducible characters of the Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G{L}_n(F_q)$ are powers of $q$ by Issacs. On the other hand Sangroniz showed that this is true for a Sylow $p$-subgroup of a classical group defined over $F_q$ if and only if $p$ is odd. For the classical groups of Lie type $B$, $C$ and $D$ the only bad prime is 2. For the exceptional groups there are others. In this paper we construct irreducible characters for the Sylow $p$-subgroups of the Chevalley groups $D_4(q)$ with $q=2^f$ of degree $q^3/2$. Then we use an analogous construction for $E_6(q)$ with $q=3^f$ to obtain characters of degree $q^7/3$, and for $E_8(q)$ with $q=5^f$ to obtain characters of degree $q^{16}/5.$ This helps to explain why the primes 2, 3 and 5 are bad for the Chevalley groups of type $E$ in terms of the representation theory of the Sylow $p$-subgroup.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2864

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zbMATH Keywords

Sylow subgroupsroot systemsChevalley groupsfinite groups of Lie typeclassical groups over finite fieldsdegrees of irreducible characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, (pi)-groups, (pi)-structure (20D20) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

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