The trivial intersection problem for characters of principal indecomposable modules.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2009.05.018MaRDI QIDQ734902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Conchita Martínez-Pérez, Wolfgang Willems

Publication date 14 October 2009

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2009.05.018

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsirreducible charactersprincipal indecomposable modulessmall rank permutation representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Representations of sporadic groups (20C34) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

Review text

A recent result of \textit{C. Bessenrodt} and \textit{J. Zhang} [Adv. Math. 218, No. 2, 485-495 (2008; Zbl 1185.20009)] states that a finite group \(G\) is nilpotent if and only if, for all primes \(p\neq q\), the principal \(p\)-block and the principal \(q\)-block of complex irreducible characters intersect only in the trivial character. The present paper considers what happens when this `trivial intersection' property is weakened to a trivial intersection of the sets of complex irreducible characters contained in the trivial PIMs for the two primes. It is shown that \(\text{PSL}(2,r)\) has this property whenever \(r\) is a Mersenne prime, but that no other finite simple group has this property. The proof proceeds by a case-by-case analysis, using the Classification of Finite Simple Groups. In the case of the sporadic groups some heavy computations are involved behind the scenes.

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