Real characters in blocks.

MaRDI QIDQ690704zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Endre Szabó, Lászlo Héthelyi, Erzsébet Horváth

Publication date 28 November 2012

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3171, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1350306589

zbMATH Keywords

blocksBrauer \(k(B)\)-problemdefect groupsfinite groupsnumbers of real valued charactersOlsson conjecturereal charactersreal versions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Abstract: We consider real versions of Brauer's k(B) conjecture, Olsson's conjecture and Eaton's conjecture. We prove the real version of Eaton's conjecture for 2-blocks of groups with cyclic defect group and for the principal 2-blocks of groups with trivial real core. We also characterize G-classes, real and rational G-classes of the defect group of a block B.

Review text

This paper proposes the study of ``real versions of some open problems in the modular representation theory of finite groups. These conjectures are first stated and then proved under some more special hypotheses. Real versions are presented of Brauer's \(k(B)\)-conjecture, Olsson's conjecture and a conjecture of Eaton. For example, the ``strong real version of Brauer's \(k(B)\)-conjecture reads as follows: Let \(B\) be a 2-block of the finite group \(G\) with defect group \(D\). Then the number of real valued characters in \(B\) is bounded above by the number of those elements in \(D\) for which there exists an element in \(N_G(D)\) that conjugates it to its inverse. In the ``weak real version the \(N_G(D)\) is replaced by \(G\) in the above statement. The strong version is proved for symmetric groups and also when \(D\) is central, and also under some other conditions on \(D\). The last part of the paper deals with fusion of elements of defect groups.

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