Incidence Homology of Finite Projective Spaces

Authors Johannes Siemons, Daniel V. Smith

Publication date 23 October 2011

Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35)

Abstract: Let F* be the finite field of q elements and let P(n,q) be the projective space of dimension n-1 over F*. We construct a family H^{n}_{k,i} of combinatorial homology modules associated to P(n,q) over a coefficient field F field of characteristic p_{0}>0 co-prime to q. As FGL(n,q)-representations the modules are obtained from the permutation action of GL(n,q) on the subspaces of F*^n. We prove a branching rule for H^{n}_{k,i} and use this rule to determine these homology representations completely. The main results are a duality theorem and the complete characterisation of H^{n}_{k,i} in terms of the standard irreducibles of GL(n,q) over F and applications.

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