English

Weights in a Benson-Solomon block

Group Theory 2019-06-25 v3 Representation Theory

Abstract

To each pair consisting of a saturated fusion system over a pp-group together with a compatible family of K\"ulshammer-Puig cohomology classes, one can count weights in a hypothetical block algebra arising from these data. When the pair arises from a bonafide block of a finite group algebra in characteristic pp, the number of conjugacy classes of weights is supposed to be the number of simple modules in the block. We show that there is unique such pair associated with each Benson-Solomon exotic fusion system, and that the number of weights in a hypothetical Benson-Solomon block is 1212, independently of the field of definition. This is carried out in part by listing explicitly up to conjugacy all centric radical subgroups and their outer automorphism groups in these systems.

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@article{arxiv.1712.02826,
  title  = {Weights in a Benson-Solomon block},
  author = {Justin Lynd and Jason Semeraro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02826},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

v2,3: Major revision including some changes to notation, Section 4 entirely rewritten, many proofs expanded, other improvements. 33 pages, 6 tables, 2 figures

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