On the number of simple modules in a block of a finite group

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.10.022MaRDI QIDQ514212zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gunter Malle, Geoffrey R. Robinson

Publication date 28 February 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05991

zbMATH Keywords

blocks of simple groupsBrauer's \(k(B)\)-conjecturenumber of simple modules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

Abstract: We prove that if $B$ is a $p$-block with non-trivial defect group $D$ of a finite $p$-solvable group $G$, then $ell(B)<p^r$, where $r$ is the sectional rank of $D$. We remark that there are infinitely many $p$-blocks $B$ with non-Abelian defect groups and $ell(B)=p^r-1$. We conjecture that the inequality $ell(B)leq{p}^r$ holds for an arbitrary $p$-block with defect group of sectional rank $r$. We show this to hold for a large class of $p$-blocks of various families of quasi-simple and nearly simple groups.

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