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Real characters in nilpotent blocks

Representation Theory 2023-02-01 v1

Abstract

We prove that the number of irreducible real characters in a nilpotent block of a finite group is locally determined. We further conjecture that the Frobenius-Schur indicators of those characters can be computed for p=2 in terms of the extended defect group. We derive this from a more general conjecture on the Frobenius-Schur indicator of projective indecomposable characters of 2-blocks with one simple module. This extends results of Murray on 2-blocks with cyclic and dihedral defect groups.

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@article{arxiv.2301.13440,
  title  = {Real characters in nilpotent blocks},
  author = {Benjamin Sambale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13440},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages

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