The Donald-Flanigan problem for finite reflection groups

DOI10.1023/A:1010846906745MaRDI QIDQ5945523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Murray Gerstenhaber, Anthony Giaquinto, Mary Schaps

Publication date 30 October 2002

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008058

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsdeformations of associative algebrasDonald-Flanigan problemfinite reflection groupsfinite representation typegroup algebrasWeyl groupswreath products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Deformations of associative rings (16S80) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Finite abelian groups (20K01)

Abstract: The Donald--Flanigan problem for a finite group H and coefficient ring k asks for a deformation of the group algebra kH to a separable algebra. It is solved here for dihedral groups and for the classical Weyl groups (whose rational group algebras are also computed), leaving but six finite reflection groups with solutions unknown. We determine the structure of a wreath product of a group with a sum of central separable algebras and show that if there is a solution for H over k which is a sum of central separable algebras then there is also a solution for the wreath product of H with any symmetric group, abelian group, or dihedral group. The theorems suggested by the Donald-Flanigan conjecture and subsequently proven follow, we also show, from a geometric conjecture which although weaker for groups applies to a broader class of algebras than group algebras.

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