On the structure of Specht modules in the principal block of F₃p

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2015.10.003MaRDI QIDQ903947zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Rosas

Publication date 15 January 2016

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04800

zbMATH Keywords

blockscomposition lengthsdecomposition numbersLoewy lengthsmodular representations of symmetric groupsSpecht modulesweights

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Let $F$ be a field of characteristic $p$ at least 5. We study the Loewy structures of Specht modules in the principal block of $FSigm{a}_{3p}$. We show that a Specht module in the block has Loewy length at most 4 and composition length at most 14. Furthermore, we classify which Specht modules have Loewy length 1, 2, 3, or 4, produce a Specht module having 14 composition factors, describe the second radical layer and the socle of the reducible Specht modules, and prove that if a Specht module corresponds to a partition that is $p$-regular and $p$-restricted then the head of the Specht module does not extend the socle.

Review text

This paper concerns the modular representation theory of the symmetric groups. A popular approach to this difficult subject is to consider blocks of small defect; blocks of defect 1 and 2 are quite well understood, though defect 3 is harder, despite the fact that we know that the decomposition numbers for such blocks are at most 1. The object here is to look at the structure of Specht modules, concentrating on their Loewy lengths and composition lengths. Although the results here are just for the principal block of \(\mathfrak S_{3p}\), it should be possible to extend them to blocks of defect 3 generally. One tantalising observation is that the largest composition length of a Specht module in the principal block of \(\mathfrak S_{3p}\) is 14, which may cause one to speculate about Catalan numbers. The paper is very well written; the author uses established combinatorial techniques for this subject, especially the abacus notation developed by James, and explains everything very well. Any researcher in this subject would benefit from reading this paper.

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