Abstract
Let 𝔽q be a field of characteristic p with q elements. It is known that the degrees of the irreducible characters of the Sylow p-subgroup of GL(𝔽q) are powers of q. On the other hand Sangroniz (2003) showed that this is true for a Sylow p-subgroup of a classical group defined over 𝔽q if and only if p is odd. For the classical groups of Lie type B, C and D the only bad prime is 2. For the exceptional groups there are others. In this paper we construct irreducible characters for the Sylow p-subgroups of the Chevalley groups D4(q) with q = 2f of degree q3/2. Then we use an analogous construction for E6(q) with q = 3f to obtain characters of degree q7/3, and for E8(q) with q = 5f to obtain characters of degree q16/5. This helps to explain why the primes 2, 3 and 5 are bad for the Chevalley groups of type E in terms of the representation theory of the Sylow p-subgroup.
Funding source: NAFOSTED
The first author would like to express his heartfelt thanks to Professor G. Robinson for all of his support during the preparation of this work.
© 2015 by De Gruyter
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- On the character degrees of Sylow p-subgroups of Chevalley groups G(pf) of type E
- Achievable sets in ℤn
- A criterion on oscillation and variation for the commutators of singular integral operators
- Some 𝐇1𝔉-groups with unbounded torsion and a conjecture of Kropholler and Mislin
- Goodwillie calculus and Whitehead products
- Computing Borel's regulator
- Applications of a transcendence criterion for reciprocal sums of binary linear recurrences
- BSDE and generalized Dirichlet forms: The infinite dimensional case
- Faithful representations of infinite-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras
- Locally finitely presented categories with no flat objects
- A common generalization of metric, ultrametric and topological fixed point theorems
- Correction to A common generalization of metric, ultrametric and topological fixed point theorems [Forum Math. 27 (2015), 303–327]
- Erdős–Rényi graph, Szemerédi–Trotter type theorem, and sum-product estimates over finite rings
- Minimal support results for Schrödinger equations
- Dynamics for the focusing, energy-critical nonlinear Hartree equation
- A fixed point theorem for Lie groups acting on buildings and applications to Kac–Moody theory
- On effective determination of Maass forms from central values of Rankin–Selberg L-function
- On embedding left-ordered groups into division rings
- Conservation property of symmetric jump-diffusion processes
- Irreducible representations of Leavitt path algebras
- Commutators of elements of coprime orders in finite groups
- Endoscopy and the transfer from GSp(4) to GL(4)
- Cycles in Leavitt path algebras by means of idempotents
- On volumes determined by subsets of Euclidean space
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- On the character degrees of Sylow p-subgroups of Chevalley groups G(pf) of type E
- Achievable sets in ℤn
- A criterion on oscillation and variation for the commutators of singular integral operators
- Some 𝐇1𝔉-groups with unbounded torsion and a conjecture of Kropholler and Mislin
- Goodwillie calculus and Whitehead products
- Computing Borel's regulator
- Applications of a transcendence criterion for reciprocal sums of binary linear recurrences
- BSDE and generalized Dirichlet forms: The infinite dimensional case
- Faithful representations of infinite-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras
- Locally finitely presented categories with no flat objects
- A common generalization of metric, ultrametric and topological fixed point theorems
- Correction to A common generalization of metric, ultrametric and topological fixed point theorems [Forum Math. 27 (2015), 303–327]
- Erdős–Rényi graph, Szemerédi–Trotter type theorem, and sum-product estimates over finite rings
- Minimal support results for Schrödinger equations
- Dynamics for the focusing, energy-critical nonlinear Hartree equation
- A fixed point theorem for Lie groups acting on buildings and applications to Kac–Moody theory
- On effective determination of Maass forms from central values of Rankin–Selberg L-function
- On embedding left-ordered groups into division rings
- Conservation property of symmetric jump-diffusion processes
- Irreducible representations of Leavitt path algebras
- Commutators of elements of coprime orders in finite groups
- Endoscopy and the transfer from GSp(4) to GL(4)
- Cycles in Leavitt path algebras by means of idempotents
- On volumes determined by subsets of Euclidean space