Representations of generic algebras and finite groups of Lie type
Representations of generic algebras and finite groups of Lie type
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DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1983-0716849-6
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发表时间:
1983-02
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
R. Howlett;G. Lehrer
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作者:
R. Howlett;G. Lehrer
The complex representation theory of a finite Lie group G is related to that of certain "generic algebras". As a consequence, formulae are derived ("the Comparison Theorem"), relating multiplicities in G to multiplicities in the Weyl group W of G. Applications include an explicit description of the dual (see below) of an arbitrary irreducible complex representation of G. Introduction. Let G be the group of F^-rational points of a (connected) reductive F(/-group G, where F^ is the Galois field of q elements. The purpose of this paper is to study the complex representation theory of G using the "generic algebra" techniques hinted at in our earlier paper [9], to which the present work may be considered a sequel. For any unexplained notation, the reader is referred to [9]. Our main theorem (5.9) compares inner products of certain characters of G with corresponding inner products within its Weyl group W. As an application of this "comparison theorem" we determine precisely what the dual (cf. Curtis [3]) of an arbitrary irreducible character of G is. In order to describe our results explicitly, we mention the principal facts concerning the structure of G which we shall require. Firstly, G has a split (/?, N)-oair in characteristic p (where q = pe). Secondly, each standard parabolic subgroup Pj of G (where J is a subset of the simple roots associated with the (/?, N )-structure) has a standard Levi decomposition Pj = MjUj, where Uj is the "unipotent radical" of Pj, and Mj, the standard Levi component of Pj, is again the group of rational points of a reductive F^-group. For more details, the reader is referred to [9, §1]. The passage between the representation theory of G and of its Weyl group W is accomplished by means of certain "generic algebras", which are associative algebras over a complex polynomial ring and which "specialize" to various complex algebras which have significance for the representation theory of G and IF. More precisely, the "Harish-Chandra principle" (see [9, §1] or §3 below) organizes the representations of G into "series" which consist of the irreducible constituents of a fixed induced cuspidal representation Ind(P7 -» G; D) (where PL is a parabolic subgroup of G and D is a cuspidal representation of ML). In [9], the constituents of a single series were studied by elucidating the structure of the endomorphism algebra of IndiP, -» G; D). In §1 of the present work we make explicit the connection between the decomposition of induced representations and the representation theory of the Received by the editors December 20, 1982. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classificution. Primary 20GO5, 20G40; Secondary 16A64, 16A65. ©1983 American Mathematical Society 0002-9947/83 $1.00 + $.25 per page