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Brauer characters and coprime action

Britta SpäthCarolina Vallejo Rodríguez

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Discrete mathematicsModular representation theoryPure mathematicsFinite groupAlgebra and Number TheoryBrauer's theorem on induced charactersCoprime integers010102 general mathematics02 engineering and technologyFixed point021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology01 natural sciencesSimple group0101 mathematicsInvariant (mathematics)Mathematics::Representation Theory0210 nano-technologyBrauer groupMathematics

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Abstract It is an open problem to show that under a coprime action, the number of invariant Brauer characters of a finite group is the number of the Brauer characters of the fixed point subgroup. We prove that this is true if the non-abelian simple groups satisfy a stronger condition.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2016.01.042