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