English

On the unit group of the Burnside ring for some solvable groups as a biset functor

Representation Theory 2018-07-30 v3

Abstract

The theory of bisets has been very useful in progress towards settling the longstanding question of determining units for the Burnside ring. In 2006 Bouc used bisets to settle the question for pp-groups. In this paper, we provide a standard basis for the unit group of the Burnside ring for groups that contain a abelian subgroups of index two. We then extend this result to groups GG, where GG has a normal subgroup, NN, of odd index, such that NN contains an abelian subgroups of index 22. Next, we study the structure of the unit group of the Burnside ring as a biset functor, B×B^\times on this class of groups and determine its lattice of subfunctors. We then use this to determine the composition factors of B×B^\times over this class of groups. Additionally, we give a sufficient condition for when the functor B×B^\times, defined on a class of groups closed under subquotients, has uncountably many subfunctors.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1710.11218,
  title  = {On the unit group of the Burnside ring for some solvable groups as a biset functor},
  author = {Jamison Barsotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.11218},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

In this version of the article, Definition 5.6 now uses the terminology 'pseudodihedral' instead of the established (prior to this article) terminology of 'quasidihedral', which was used in previous versions of the article. This was suggested by a referee