Toward a Classification of the Supercharacter Theories of C_p\times C_p

DOI10.1017/S0013091522000438zbMATH Open1515.20046arXiv2007.12503MaRDI QIDQ6345765FDOQ6345765

Shawn T. Burkett, Mark L. Lewis

Publication date: 24 July 2020

Abstract: In this paper, we study the superscharacter theories of elementary abelian $p$-groups of order $p^2$. We show that the supercharacter theories that arise from the direct product construction and the $ast$-product construction can be obtained from automorphisms. We also prove that any supercharacter theory of an elementary abelian $p$-group of order $p^2$ that has a nonidentity superclass of size $1$ or a nonprincipal linear supercharacter must come from either a $ast$-product or a direct product. Although we are unable to prove results for general primes, we do compute all of the supercharacter theories when $p=2,3,5$, and based on these computations along with particular computations for larger primes, we make several conjectures for a general prime $p$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

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