Tackling the generation problem in condensation.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2006.06.021MaRDI QIDQ875114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Noeske

Publication date 11 April 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.06.021

zbMATH Keywords

Brauer characterscomputational representation theorycondensationdouble cosetsgenerating setsgeneration problemirreducible representationsMeatAxemodular representationssporadic simple groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Representations of sporadic groups (20C34) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

`Condensation' is an important computational tool in the modular representation theory of finite groups, which permits computation of properties of very large representations of groups by reducing the problem to computing with much smaller representations of suitable `condensation algebras'. The major problem with such methods, however, is the difficulty of finding a tractable set of elements in the algebra which can be proved to generate the algebra. In this paper, the author makes two important advances in this area. The first is a method using double cosets of the normaliser of the condensation subgroup to produce a relatively small set of elements which provably generate the algebra. The second is a method for testing whether a given set of elements does in fact generate the algebra. Both techniques can be used to prove that the small (algebra) representations have exactly the same structures as the large (group) representations, and thus have practical applications to determining (for example) degrees and Brauer characters of irreducible representations. The most spectacular applications are to sporadic simple groups.

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