McKay graphs for alternating and classical groups

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8395MaRDI QIDQ5004547zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin W. Liebeck, Aner Shalev, Pham Huu Tiep

Publication date 2 August 2021

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10530

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupirreducible characterMcKay graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group, and $alpha$ a nontrivial character of $G$. The McKay graph $mathcalM(G,alpha)$ has the irreducible characters of $G$ as vertices, with an edge from $ch{i}_1$ to $ch{i}_2$ if $ch{i}_2$ is a constituent of $alphach{i}_1$. We study the diameters of McKay graphs for finite simple groups $G$. For alternating groups, we prove a conjecture made in [LST]: there is an absolute constant $C$ such that $hboxdiam,mathcalM(G,alpha)leCfraclog|mathsf{A}_n|logalpha(1)$ for all nontrivial irreducible characters $alpha$ of $mathsf{A}_n$. Also for classsical groups of symplectic or orthogonal type of rank $r$, we establish a linear upper bound $Cr$ on the diameters of all nontrivial McKay graphs.

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