The Cuspidal Modules of the Finite General Linear Groups

DOI10.1112/S1461157000000152MaRDI QIDQ4230661zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. I. Deriziotis, Constantine P. Gotsis

Publication date 8 February 1999

Published in LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/1/

zbMATH Keywords

actionscuspidal complex characterscuspidal modulesfinite general linear groupsGelfand-Graev charactersgeneratorsinduced charactersWeyl groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

The authors study the action of the finite general linear group \(G:=\text{GL}_n(q)\) on a cuspidal module, i.e., a \(\mathbb{C} G\)-module, affording a cuspidal complex character. Let \(U\leq G\) be the upper unitriangular subgroup and \(\Psi\) a linear complex character of \(U\) in general position (i.e., non-trivial on all root subgroups to base roots). Then the induced character \(\Gamma:=\Psi^G\), which is known as Gelfand-Graev character, is multiplicity-free and contains each cuspidal character. A (left) module affording \(\Gamma\) can be given as the space \({\mathcal F}\) of \(\mathbb{C}\)-valued functions \(f\) on \(G\) satisfying \(f(gu)=\Psi(u^{-1})f(g)\), \(\forall u\in U\), \(g\in G\) with \((gf)(x):=f(g^{-1}x)\), or alternatively as the left ideal \(\mathbb{C} Ge\) with the idempotent \(e:=1/| U|\sum_{u\in U}\Psi(u^{-1})u\in\mathbb{C} G\). Let \(f_1\colon G\to\mathbb{C} \) with \(f_1(u):=\Psi(u^{-1})\) for \(u\in U\) and \(f_1(y)=0\) for \(y\in G\setminus U\), then \(f_1\in{\mathcal F}\). Let \(\chi\) be a cuspidal character and \(\varepsilon_\chi\) the corresponding central-primitive idempotent in \(\mathbb{C} G\), then \(\varepsilon_\chi{\mathcal F}=\mathbb{C} G\varepsilon_\chi f_1\) is a \(\mathbb{C} G\)-module affording \(\chi\). Using this description, the authors exhibit a useful basis \(B\) for this module together with a suitable set \(S\) of generators for \(G\) and give an explicit description of the matrices of elements in \(S\) with respect to \(B\). The nonzero entries in the matrix of a certain element \(s\in S\) (corresponding to the transposition \((n-1,n)\) in the Weyl group \(\Sigma_n\)) turn out to be so-called `Bessel coefficients', a fact, which had been conjectured by R. Carter. The authors determine explicitly the entries of these matrices for the group \(\text{GL}_4(q)\).

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• Restriction of a cuspidal module for finite general linear groups.
• Cuspidal Modules as Summands of a Gel'fand–Graev Module
• On values of the Bessel function for generic representations of finite general linear groups

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