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Broué's abelian defect group conjecture for alternating groups

Author(s): Andrei Marcus
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 7-14.
MSC (2000): Primary 20C20; Secondary 20C30, 16W50
Posted: August 12, 2003
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Abstract: We establish Broué's abelian defect group conjecture for the alternating groups, using the Chuang-Rouquier theorem (proving this for the symmetric groups) and a descent result.


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Additional Information:

Andrei Marcus
Affiliation: ``Babes-Bolyai" University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Str. Mihail Kogalniceanu nr. 1, RO-40084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Email: marcus@math.ubbcluj.ro

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07214-9
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07214-9
Keywords: Symmetric groups, alternating groups, blocks, abelian defect groups, Rickard equivalences, splendid tilting complex, group graded algebras
Received by editor(s): August 15, 2002
Posted: August 12, 2003
Additional Notes: The author was supported by a Fulbright fellowship.
Communicated by: Stephen D. Smith
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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