Exotic characters of unitriangular matrix groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2011.06.003zbMATH Open1234.20016arXiv1012.2192OpenAlexW2015963408MaRDI QIDQ659858FDOQ659858

Authors: Eric Marberg 

Publication date: 24 January 2012

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $U{T}_n(q)$ denote the unitriangular group of unipotent $nimesn$ upper triangular matrices over a finite field with cardinality $q$ and prime characteristic $p$. It has been known for some time that when $p$ is fixed and $n$ is sufficiently large, $U{T}_n(q)$ has ``exotic irreducible characters taking values outside the cyclotomic field $QQ(zet{a}_p)$. However, all proofs of this fact to date have been both non-constructive and computer dependent. In a preliminary work, we defined a family of orthogonal characters decomposing the supercharacters of an arbitrary algebra group. By applying this construction to the unitriangular group, we are able to derive by hand an explicit description of a family of characters of $U{T}_n(q)$ taking values in arbitrarily large cyclotomic fields. In particular, we prove that if $r$ is a positive integer power of $p$ and $n>6r$, then $U{T}_n(q)$ has an irreducible character of degree $q^{5r^2-2r}$ which takes values outside $QQ(zet{a}_{pr})$. By the same techniques, we are also able to construct explicit Kirillov functions which fail to be characters of $U{T}_n(q)$ when $n>12$ and $q$ is arbitrary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2192

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zbMATH Keywords

character degreesirreducible characterscyclotomic fieldssupercharactersalgebra groupsunitriangular groupsorthogonal charactersupper triangular matrix groups over finite fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

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