Fields Generated by Characters of Finite Groups
Fields Generated by Characters of Finite Groups
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DOI:
10.1112/jlms/s2-4.4.735
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发表时间:
1972
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
B. Gordon
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作者:
B. Fein;B. Gordon
In this paper we investigate the properties of the field#(G) generated over the rationals, Q, by the entries of the complex character table of a finite group G. We characterize#(G) as that Abelian extension of Q with the property that every finite residue class field is a minimal splitting field for G. Although#(G) is not, in general, itself a splitting field for G, every splitting field of characteristic zero for G contains an isomorphic copy of#(G) as a subfield. As a measure of how close#(G) is to being a splitting field for G, we define the Schur index, m (G), of G to be minimum [K:#(G)], the minimum being taken over all splitting fields K for G, such that K 2#(G). We show that m (G) has many of the properties possessed by the Schur index of a representation, and, in particular, we show that m (G) divides the index of any Abelian normal subgroup of G. Finally we consider the question of which fields can be generated by adjoining entries of character tables. We prove that every Abelian extension of Q has a primitive element which is an entry of the character table of some finite group. We also obtain the analogous results for the fields generated over Q by one row or one column of the character table of a finite group. Throughout this paper G will denote a finite group of order| G|. We denote the ring of integers of an algebraic number field K by^(K). For P a prime ideal of J {K), we put (p)= P nZ, p a. rational prime and Z the ring of integers in Q. We denote the P-adic completion of K by KP and the finite residue class field of KP by KP. For aeJ (K), we denote the element a+ P of the residue class field of K at P (which is isomorphic to KP) by a. We view a as an element of KP. By a K-representation of G we shall mean a representation of G by matrices with entries in K. A. K-character will be the character afforded by a.^-representation. en will denote a primitive nth root of unity over Q and we put Qn= Q (en). Zp will denote the prime field of characteristic p, p^ 0, and Zp will be an algebraic closure of Zp.# P (G) will denote the field generated over Zp by the values%{g) taken over allg e G and over all irreducible Zp-characters% of G.^ o (G)=#(G). For any field L we denote the group algebra of G over L by L [G]. L is a splitting field for G if L [G]/rad (L [G]) is a direct sum of complete matrix algebras over L. If L and K are fields with L a finite normal extension of K, we denote the Galois group of L over K by & (L\K). We refer the reader to [3],[7], and [1] for the relevant representation theory, algebraic number theory, and theory of algebras assumed.