The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture for covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups in odd characteristic.

DOI10.1007/S10801-011-0277-5MaRDI QIDQ644686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jean-Baptiste Gramain

Publication date 7 November 2011

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4704

zbMATH Keywords

Alperin-McKay conjecturealternating groupsbar-partitionscharacters of finite groupscovering groupsIsaacs-Navarro conjecturerepresentation theoryspin blockssymmetric groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove that a refinement of the Alperin-McKay Conjecture for $p$-blocks of finite groups, formulated by I. M. Isaacs and G. Navarro in 2002, holds for all covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups, whenever $p$ is an odd prime.

Review text

The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture is a refinement of the Alperin-McKay conjecture concerning the characters of a finite group \(G\) lying in a \(p\)-block of \(G\). The conjecture is known to hold for symmetric groups (Fong) and alternating groups (Nath) and in this paper the author shows that it also holds in all the covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups in odd characteristic. The methods used are combinatorial, and the author reduces the problem to showing that the conjecture holds for a certain principal spin block.

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• The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture for the alternating groups.
• Local structure of the p-blocks of \(\tilde S_ n\)
• The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture for symmetric groups.
• The Navarro conjecture for the alternating groups
• Basic sets for the double covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups in odd characteristic
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• The Navarro conjecture for the alternating groups, p=2.

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