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Perfect isometries and Murnaghan-Nakayama rules

Representation Theory 2015-12-01 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

This article is concerned with perfect isometries between blocks of finite groups. Generalizing a method of Enguehard to show that any two p-blocks of (possibly different) symmetric groups with the same weight are perfectly isometric, we prove analogues of this result for p-blocks of alternating groups (where the blocks must also have the same sign when p is odd), of double covers of alternating and symmetric groups (for p odd, and where we obtain crossover isometries when the blocks have opposite signs),of complex reflection groups G(d,1,n) (for d prime to p), of Weyl groups of type B and D (for p odd), and of certain wreath products. In order to do this, we need to generalize the theory of blocks, in a way which should be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.1305.7449,
  title  = {Perfect isometries and Murnaghan-Nakayama rules},
  author = {Olivier Brunat and Jean-Baptiste Gramain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.7449},
  year   = {2015}
}
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