The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture for symmetric groups.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture for symmetric groups.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1129.20007
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8693(02)00630-0
author: Paul Fong
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 2003-04-28T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(p\) be a prime, let \(B\) be a \(p\)-block of a finite group \(G\) with defect group \(D\), and let \(b\) be the Brauer correspondent of \(B\), a \(p\)-block of \(N_G(D)\) with defect group \(D\). The Alperin-McKay conjecture asserts that \(|M(B)|=|M(b)|\) where \(M(B)\) is the set of irreducible characters \(\chi\) of height 0 in \(B\). (This means that the \(p\)-part of \(|G|/\chi(1)\) is \(|D|\).) The Isaacs-Navarro conjecture [\textit{I. M. Isaacs, G. Navarro}, Ann. Math. (2) 156, No. 1, 333-344 (2002; Zbl 1018.20007)] is a recent refinement of the Alperin-McKay conjecture. It asserts that \(|M_k(B)|=|M_k(b)|\) for \(k=1,\dots,p\) where \[ M_k(B)=\{\chi\in M(B):\tfrac{|G:D|}{\chi(1)}\equiv\pm k\pmod p\} \] for each \(k\). In the paper under review, the author verifies this conjecture, for \(G\) a finite symmetric group, by constructing an explicit bijection between \(M_k(B)\) and \(M_k(b)\). His method refines work of \textit{J. B. Olsson} [in Math. Scand. 38, 25-42 (1976; Zbl 0327.20005)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20C20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20C30
zbMATH DE Number: 1901821
zbMATH Keywords: blocks
zbMATH Keywords: defect groups
zbMATH Keywords: Alperin-McKay conjecture
zbMATH Keywords: Isaacs-Navarro conjecture
zbMATH Keywords: numbers of irreducible characters
zbMATH Keywords: symmetric groups
zbMATH Keywords: Brauer correspondents
Wikidata QID: Q123014111
reviewed by: Burkhard Külshammer
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: New refinements of the McKay conjecture for arbitrary finite groups
cites work: On the Degrees of the Irreducible Representations of Symmetric Groups
cites work: McKay numbers and heights of characters.
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