On symmetric quotients of symmetric algebras.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2014.05.035MaRDI QIDQ493011zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Radha Kessar, Shigeo Koshitani, Markus Linckelmann

Publication date 11 September 2015

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3831

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-modular systemsdecomposition numbersfinite groupsgroup algebrasirreducible Brauer charactersirreducible characterssymmetric algebrassymmetric quotient algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Abstract: We investigate symmetric quotient algebras of symmetric algebras, with an emphasis on finite group algebras over a complete discrete valuation ring $mathcalO$. Using elementary methods, we show that if an ordinary irreducible character $chi$ of a finite group $G$ gives rise to a symmetric quotient over $mathcalO$ which is not a matrix algebra, then the decomposition numbers of the row labelled by $chi$ are all divisible by the characteristic $p$ of the residue field of $mathcalO$.

Review text

Let \(p\) be a prime, and let \((K,\mathcal O,k)\) be a splitting \(p\)-modular system for a finite group \(G\). Moreover, let \(\chi\) be an irreducible character of \(G\) over \(K\), and let \(e(\chi)\) be the corresponding primitive idempotent in the center \(Z(KG)\). It is known that the group algebra \(\mathcal OG\) is a symmetric algebra. The authors prove: (1) If the \(\mathcal O\)-algebra \(\mathcal OGe(\chi)\) is symmetric then either \(\chi\) lifts an irreducible Brauer character, or the decomposition number \(d_{\chi\varphi}\) is divisible by \(p\) for every irreducible Brauer character \(\varphi\) of \(G\). (2) If \(\chi\) is of central type (i.e. \(\chi(1)^2=|G:Z(G)|\)) then \(\mathcal OGe(\chi)\) is symmetric. (3) If \(G\) is a finite \(p\)-group with a cyclic subgroup of index \(p\) then \(\mathcal OGe(\chi)\) is symmetric. The authors also investigate the question where \(\mathcal OG/\mathcal O\left(\sum_{x\in G}x\right)\) is symmetric.

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