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

DOI10.1007/S10801-011-0277-5zbMATH Open1239.20015arXiv1003.4704OpenAlexW2012825457WikidataQ123024792 ScholiaQ123024792MaRDI QIDQ644686FDOQ644686

Jean-Baptiste Gramain

Publication date: 7 November 2011

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupssymmetric groupsrepresentation theoryAlperin-McKay conjecturecovering groupsbar-partitionscharacters of finite groupsIsaacs-Navarro conjecturespin blocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture for symmetric groups.
• Broué's perfect isometry conjecture holds for the double covers of the symmetric and alternating groups
• Basic sets for the double covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups in odd characteristic

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