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Endo-trivial modules for finite groups with Klein-four Sylow 2-subgroups

Representation Theory 2014-10-10 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We study the finitely generated abelian group T(G)T(G) of endo-trivial kGkG-modules where kGkG is the group algebra of a finite group GG over a field of characteristic p>0p>0. When the representation type of the group algebra is not wild, the group structure of T(G)T(G) is known for the cases where a Sylow pp-subgroup PP of GG is cyclic, semi-dihedral and generalized quaternion. We investigate T(G)T(G), and more accurately, its torsion subgroup TT(G)TT(G) for the case where PP is a Klein-four group. More precisely, we give a necessary and sufficient condition in terms of the centralizers of involutions under which TT(G)=f1(X(NG(P)))TT(G) = f^{-1}(X(N_{G}(P))) holds, where f1(X(NG(P)))f^{-1}(X(N_{G}(P))) denotes the abelian group consisting of the kGkG-Green correspondents of the one-dimensional kNG(P)kN_{G}(P)-modules. We show that the lift to characteristic zero of any indecomposable module in TT(G)TT(G) affords an irreducible ordinary character. Furthermore, we show that the property of a module in f1(X(NG(P)))f^{-1}(X(N_{G}(P))) of being endo-trivial is not intrinsic to the module itself but is decided at the level of the block to which it belongs.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1310.3647,
  title  = {Endo-trivial modules for finite groups with Klein-four Sylow 2-subgroups},
  author = {Shigeo Koshitani and Caroline Lassueur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3647},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

17 pages. Changes from (v1): S. Koshitani was added as an author. This is an improvement of (v1) focusing on the group of endotrivial modules for finite groups with Klein-four Sylow 2-subgroups. The last section was removed