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Generalised Cartan invariants of symmetric groups

Representation Theory 2013-07-16 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

K\"ulshammer, Olsson, and Robinson developed an l-analogue of modular representation theory of symmetric groups where l is not necessarily a prime. They gave a conjectural combinatorial description for invariant factors of the Cartan matrix in this context. We confirm their conjecture by proving a more precise blockwise conjecture due to Bessenrodt and Hill.

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@article{arxiv.1210.2679,
  title  = {Generalised Cartan invariants of symmetric groups},
  author = {Anton Evseev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2679},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Proofs simplified and proof of Lemma 3.8 corrected following referee's comments. To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc