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On the characters of the Sylow $p$-subgroups of untwisted Chevalley groups $Y_{n}(p^{a})$

Part of: Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2016

Frank Himstedt ,
Tung Le  and
Kay Magaard
Frank Himstedt
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Zentrum Mathematik – M11, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching, Germany email himstedt@ma.tum.de
Tung Le
Affiliation:
North-West University, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa email lttung96@yahoo.com
Kay Magaard
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom email k.magaard@bham.ac.uk

Abstract

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Let $UY_{n}(q)$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup of an untwisted Chevalley group $Y_{n}(q)$ of rank $n$ defined over $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ where $q$ is a power of a prime $p$. We partition the set $\text{Irr}(UY_{n}(q))$ of irreducible characters of $UY_{n}(q)$ into families indexed by antichains of positive roots of the root system of type $Y_{n}$. We focus our attention on the families of characters of $UY_{n}(q)$ which are indexed by antichains of length $1$. Then for each positive root $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ we establish a one-to-one correspondence between the minimal degree members of the family indexed by $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ and the linear characters of a certain subquotient $\overline{T}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}}$ of $UY_{n}(q)$. For $Y_{n}=A_{n}$ our single root character construction recovers, among other things, the elementary supercharacters of these groups. Most importantly, though, this paper lays the groundwork for our classification of the elements of $\text{Irr}(UE_{i}(q))$, $6\leqslant i\leqslant 8$, and $\text{Irr}(UF_{4}(q))$.

MSC classification

Primary: 20C15: Ordinary representations and characters 20C33: Representations of finite groups of Lie type
Type
Research Article
Information
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , 2016 , pp. 303 - 359
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2016 

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