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Weight conjectures for fusion systems on an extraspecial group

Representation Theory 2026-02-04 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

In a previous paper, we stated and motivated counting conjectures for fusion systems that are purely local analogues of several local-to-global conjectures in the modular representation theory of finite groups. Here we verify some of these conjectures for fusion systems on an extraspecial group of order p3p^3, which contain among them the Ruiz-Viruel exotic fusion systems at the prime 77. As a byproduct we verify Robinson's ordinary weight conjecture for principal pp-blocks of almost simple groups GG realizing such (nonconstrained) fusion systems.

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@article{arxiv.2505.04840,
  title  = {Weight conjectures for fusion systems on an extraspecial group},
  author = {Radha Kessar and Markus Linckelmann and Justin Lynd and Jason Semeraro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04840},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

19 pages, expanded version of Section 8 of arXiv:1810.01453