Values of character sums for finite unitary groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2008.03.022MaRDI QIDQ949591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathaniel Thiem, C. Ryan Vinroot

Publication date 21 October 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2916

zbMATH Keywords

character sumsconjugacyfinite unitary groupsHall-Littlewood functionsirreducible character degrees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: A known result for the finite general linear group $GL(n,F{F}_q)$ and for the finite unitary group $U(n,F{F}_{q^2})$ posits that the sum of the irreducible character degrees is equal to the number of symmetric matrices in the group. Fulman and Guralnick extended this result by considering sums of irreducible characters evaluated at an arbitrary conjugacy class of $GL(n,F{F}_q)$. We develop an explicit formula for the value of the permutation character of $U(2n,F{F}_{q^2})$ over $Sp(2n,F{F}_q)$ evaluated an an arbitrary conjugacy class and use results concerning Gelfand-Graev characters to obtain an analogous formula for $U(n,F{F}_{q^2})$ in the case where $q$ is an odd prime. These results are also given as probabilistic statements.

Review text

For the general linear group \(\text{GL}(n,\mathbb{F}_q)\) and unitary group \(\text{U}(n,\mathbb{F}_{q^2})\) over a finite field it is known that the sum of the irreducible character degrees gives the number of symmetric matrices in the group. For general linear groups this result was extended by \textit{J. Fulman} and \textit{R. Guralnick} [J. Algebra 275, No. 1, 356-396 (2004; Zbl 1065.20065)], where sums of irreducible characters evaluated at arbitrary elements are considered. The main purpose of the paper under review is to perform the analogous extension for unitary groups. The authors rely on a model for the unitary group which can be found in their paper [Adv. Math. 210, No. 2, 707-732 (2007; Zbl 1124.20031)], and also a calculation of the permutation character of \(\text{U}(2n,\mathbb{F}_{q^2})\) on \(\text{Sp}(2n,\mathbb{F}_{q^2})\), which is achieved in this paper. The computations in the paper involve Deligne-Lusztig induction, Gel'fand-Graev characters and Hall-Littlewood functions, among other things. The final section of the paper contains some probabilistic translations of the main results.

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