Partial augmentations and Brauer character values of torsion units in group rings

Publication date 15 December 2006

Abstract: For a torsion unit

u

of the integral group ring

m a t h b b Z G

of a finite group

G

, and a prime

p

which does not divide the order of

u

(but the order of

G

), a relation between the partial augmentations of

u

on the

p

-regular classes of

G

and Brauer character values is noted, analogous to the obvious relation between partial augmentations and ordinary character values. For non-solvable

G

, consequences concerning rational conjugacy of

u

to a group element are discussed, considering as examples the symmetric group

S_{5}

and the groups

e x t m P S L (2, p^{f})

.

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