On the focal defect group of a block, characters of height zero, and lower defect group multiplicities.

DOI10.1016/j.jalgebra.2008.04.032zbMath1153.20006OpenAlexW1964583930MaRDI QIDQ952565

Geoffrey R. Robinson

Publication date: 12 November 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2008.04.032

zbMATH Keywords

numbers of irreducible charactersblocksCartan invariantsmodular representationsirreducible characters of height zerocharacter groupsfocal defect groupfocal subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

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