Character table and blocks of finite simple triality groups
Character table and blocks of finite simple triality groups
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10.1090/s0002-9947-1987-0896007-9
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发表时间:
1987
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1.3
通讯作者:
D. Deriziotis;G. Michler
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作者:
D. Deriziotis;G. Michler
Based on recent work of Spaltenstein [14] and the Deligne-Lusztig theory of irreducible characters of finite groups of Lie type, in this paper the character table of the finite simple groups iD4(q) is given. As an application we obtain a classification of the irreducible characters of iDi(q) into r-blocks for all primes r > 0. This enables us to verify Brauer's height zero conjecture, his conjecture on the bound of irreducible characters belonging to a give block, and the Alperin-McKay conjecture for the simple triality groups }D4(q). It also follows that for every prime r there are blocks of defect zero in }Di(q). Introduction. Let G„ -3D4(q) be a simple triality group defined over a finite field GF(q) with q p" elements, where p > 0 is a prime number and « is a positive integer. In [14] N. Spaltenstein computed the values of the eight unipotent irreducible characters of G„. Using his results we determine the character table of G„ in §4. In Theorem 4.3 the nonunipotent irreducible characters of G„ are presented in the form of precise linear combinations of the virtual Deligne-Lusztig characters RT&, where © is a linear character of the a-fixed points of a a-stable maximal torus T of the corresponding algebraic group G. The values of the Deligne-Lusztig characters are given in Table 3.6. By Lusztig's Jordan form of the irreducible characters of a finite group of Lie type [11] each irreducible character x of G„ is of the form x = Xi?M> where t is a semisimple element of Ga and xu lS a unipotent irreducible character of the centralizer Cc(t) of t. The group theoretical structure of the centralizers Cc(t) of the semisimple elements t of Ga is given in Proposition 2.2, and of the 7 (up to Ga-conjugacy) maximal tori 7), 0 X/,st> X>1 Xi.qsor X/.ststA complete classification of the irreducible characters of Ga with their degrees is given in Table 4.4. On the set of conjugacy classes of semisimple elements t of Ga one can define an equivalence relation as follows. Two such conjugacy classes ip» and ip» are equivalent if and only if their centralizers Cc(i,) and Cc(t2) are G0-conjugate. If q is odd, there are 15 equivalence classes with representatives s¡, 1 0 and all /--blocks B of G„ with defect group 8(B) = GD the number of all irreducible characters of G„ belonging to B is bounded by k(B) 0; see Corollary 5.1. Concerning the notation and terminology we refer to the books by Carter [2], Deriziotis [4], Feit [7], and Lusztig [11]. 1. Notations and known results on 3D4(q). Let G be a simple simply connected algebraic group of Dynkin diagram type D4 over the algebraic closure K of the prime field GF(/>) = Fp, p > 0. Let q = pm for some positive integer m, and let GF( hx and r(h2) = h2. Then t induces an isometry on V which again is denoted by t. The triality automorphism a = rq of G is induced by t times the field automorphism z -» z' of /C The simple group 3D4(q) = Ga = {g G G|a(g) = g} is called the Steinberg-Tits triality. Its order \Ga\ = 912(98 + q4 + l)(qb l)(q2 1). The torus T is a-stable. The restriction of a = qj onto T induces a linear transformation of V, again denoted by a. Let h: Hom(X, K*) -> T be defined as follows. For every x G Hom(X,K*), h(x) = t G T, where x(^) = A(i) for all X g X Then h is an isomorphism. Let A,, A2, A3, and A4 be the fundamental weights in X. Each element h(x) g 7 can uniquely be written as A(x)-n*(x*,.„), 1-1 where Xa,,z(a) = zMh,) for /g $, z g A'*, and where x(^,) = z, for 1 r2' r3} •/4= {-/■()} y5 = 0 a, a7 = i Œ/, = = Z2 ßy, = Oi -3^2 + 4^2-4) = z2 Ûy4 = X X (w3 + 4> = (Z2)3 a, = if License or copyright restrictions may apply to redistribution; see http://www.ams.org/journal-terms-of-use 42 D. I. deriziotis and g. o. michler Let ^j be the collection of all a-stable G-conjugates of Cc(x) where x is a semisimple element of G with r(x) = 1 for all re/, Then the group Ga acts on #y by conjugation. If 7 = 0 is the empty set, then Q0 = W, and x is a regular element of Ga. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the G0-orbits of a-stable maximal tori of G and the classes of Hl(a, W), see [1, p. 186]. It is known for the triality Ga =3D4(q) that \Hl(a, W)\ = 7; cf. [14]. Let T be a a-stable maximal torus of G, with Weyl group W = NC(T)/T. If 7" is a a-stable maximal torus of G, then there is a unique class [w.] g rY^a, IF) with je {0,1,..., 6} such that T'„ is G-conjugate to 77. = T 0 = {i g r | H>ya(í) = i}. In particular, the element h(x) — nf=1 h(x>,, z,) g T belongs to T¡ if and only if 4 A(x) = Wjoh(x) = El a(Xwt(a,),z,í)/ = i For the sake of simplicity, each element h(x) Y\4=xh(xh ,z) & T is denoted by A(x) = (zlt z2> z3> z4)With this notation we can parametrize all the elemen