Modular permutation representations

Scott, L. L.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1973-0310051-1

Modular permutation representations
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Abstract:

A modular theory for permutation representations and their centralizer rings is presented, analogous in several respects to the classical work of Brauer on group algebras. Some principal ingredients of the theory are characters of indecomposable components of the permutation module over a p-adic ring, modular characters of the centralizer ring, and the action of normalizers of p-subgroups P on the fixed points of P. A detailed summary appears in [15]. A main consequence of the theory is simplification of the problem of computing the ordinary character table of a given centralizer ring. Also, some previously unsuspected properties of permutation characters emerge. Finally, the theory provides new insight into the relation of Brauer’s theory of blocks to Green’s work on indecomposable modules.

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