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On the character degrees of Sylow p-subgroups of Chevalley groups G(pf) of type E

  • Tung Le EMAIL logo und Kay Magaard
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 13. Juli 2012

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.

MSC: 20C33; 20C15

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.

Received: 2011-6-8
Revised: 2012-4-26
Published Online: 2012-7-13
Published in Print: 2015-1-1

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