Pointed groups and construction of characters
Pointed groups and construction of characters
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01261873
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发表时间:
1981-06
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0.8
通讯作者:
L. Puig
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作者:
L. Puig
In [13 J. Alperin and M. Brou6 introduce a so called local structure in any block of a finite group G, and in [3] M. Brou6 and the author show how to use it to construct characters of G. Here we will introduce a new concept, the pointed groups, which enables us to generalize both, the local structure and the construction of characters, to interior G-algebras (see Definition 3.1 below); we believe this approach provides a more coherent treatment of the whole subject. From the local structure point of view, our Theorem 1.2 is homologous to Theorem 3.10 in [-1] and to Theorem 1.14 in [3](actually it implies them), and completes Green's definition of defect groups. Theorem 3.4 extends Green's concept of" source" to interior G-algebras. From the character point of view, Theorem 4.3 and Corollary 4.4 generalize the Brauer's Second Main Theorem and provide an interpretation of the generalized decomposition numbers. Theorem 5.2 suggests a method to construct virtual characters and provides an easy proof of Theorem 2.6 in [33. By the way, our Proposition 1.6 sketches a short proof of the main result of [73 and our Definition 2.5 leads to a slightly more general definition of Brauer characters (but we do not develop it). The paper is divided in five sections and we give in each one the definitions and notations needed. Troughout the paper, p is a prime number and (9 a complete discrete valuation ring with quotient field of characteristic zero and residual field~ f of characteristic p. All the C-algebras we consider here are associative with unit element, finitely generated as C-modules and either C-free or annihilated by J ((9)(the Jacobson radical of (9); similarly, all the@-modules are finitely generated and either C-free or annihilated by J (C). A homomorphism f: A~ B between C-algebras is not required to be unitary, and we say that f is an embedding if Ker (f)={0} and Im (f)= f (1A) Bf (1A). For any (P-algebra A, we denote by A* the group of invertible elements of A and by N (A) the set of A*-conjugacy classes of primitive idempotents of A. An easy consequence of lifting theorems for idempotents [10, ch. 13 is that if I is a two-sided ideal of A, for any~(A) either c~ I or~+ I~(A/I), and the map~--~+ I is a bijection from the set of c~(A) such that~ r onto~(A/I); in particular, setting I= J (A), we get a bijection from N (A) onto the set of simple