An Ennola duality for subgroups of groups of Lie type
Abstract
We develop a theory of Ennola duality for subgroups of finite groups of Lie type, relating subgroups of twisted and untwisted groups of the same type. Roughly speaking, one finds that subgroups of correspond to subgroups of , where is interpreted modulo . Analogous results for types other than are established, including for exceptional types where the maximal subgroups are known, although the result for type is still conjectural. Let denote the Gram matrix of a non-zero orthogonal form for a real, irreducible representation of a finite group, and consider . If the representation has twice odd dimension, we conjecture that lies in some cyclotomic field. This does not hold for representations of dimension a multiple of , with a specific example of the Janko group in dimension given. (This tallies with Ennola duality for representations, where type has no Ennola duality with .)
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@article{arxiv.2109.04938,
title = {An Ennola duality for subgroups of groups of Lie type},
author = {David A. Craven},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04938},
year = {2023}
}