Simple fusion systems and the Solomon 2-local groups

We introduce a notion of simple fusion systems which imitates the corresponding notion for finite groups and show that the fusion system on the Sylow-2-subgroup of a 7-dimensional spinor group over a field of characteristic 3 considered by Ron Solomon [18] and by Ran Levi and Bob Oliver [11] is simple in this sense

Blocks of minimal dimension

Any block with defect group P of a finite group G with Sylow-p-subgroup S has dimension at least |S|2/|P|; we show that a block which attains this bound is nilpotent, answering a question of G. R. Robinson

Trivial source bimodule rings for blocks and p-permutation equivalences

We associate with any p-block of a finite group a Grothendieck ring of certain p-permutation bimodules. We extend the notion of p-permutation equivalences introduced by Boltje and Xu [4] to source algebras of p-blocks of finite groups. We show that a p-permutation equivalence between two source algebras A, B of blocks with a common defect group and same local structure induces an isotypy

On H* (C{script}; k×) for fusion systems

We give a cohomological criterion for the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the 2-cocycle gluing problem in block theory. The existence of a solution for the 2-cocycle gluing problem is further reduced to a property of fusion systems of certain finite groups associated with the fusion system of a block

The orbit space of a fusion system is contractible

Given a fusion system F on a finite p-group P, where p is a prime, we show that the partially ordered set of isomorphism classes in F of chains of non-trivial subgroups of P, considered as topological space, is contractible, further generalising Symonds’ proof [19] of a conjecture of Webb [23, 24] and its generalisation to non-trivial Brauer pairs associated with a p-block by Barker [1]

Finite generation of Hochschild cohomology of Hecke algebras of finite classical type in characteristic zero

We show that the Hochschild cohomology HH*(ℋ) of a Hecke algebra ℋ of finite classical type over a field k of characteristic zero and a non-zero parameter q in k is finitely generated, unless possibly if q has even order in k× and ℋ is of type B or D

On graded centres and block cohomology

We extend the group theoretic notions of transfer and stable elements to graded centers of triangulated categories. When applied to the center H∗Db(B)) of the derived bounded category of a block algebra B we show that the block cohomology H∗(B) is isomorphic to a quotient of a certain subalgebra of stable elements of H∗(Db(B)) by some nilpotent ideal, and that a quotient of H∗(Db(B)) by some nilpotent ideal is Noetherian over H∗(B)

Fusion category algebras

The fusion system F on a defect group P of a block b of a finite group G over a suitable p-adic ring O does not in general determine the number l(b) of isomorphism classes of simple modules of the block. We show that conjecturally the missing information should be encoded in a single second cohomology class α of the constant functor with value k× on the orbit category F¯c of F-centric subgroups Q of P of b which “glues together” the second cohomology classes α(Q) of AutF¯(Q) with values in k× in K¨ulshammer-Puig [13, 1.8]. We show that if α exists, there is a canonical quasi-hereditary k-algebra F¯(b) such that Alperin’s weight conjecture becomes equivalent to the equality l(b) = l(F¯(b)). By work of Broto, Levi, Oliver [3], the existence of a classifying space of the block b is equivalent to the existence of a certain extension category L of Fc by the center functor Z. If both invariants α, L exist we show that there is an O-algebra L(b) associated with b having F¯(b) as quotient such that Alperin’s weight conjecture becomes again equivalent to the equality l(b) = l(L(b)); furthermore, if b has an abelian defect group, L(b) is isomorphic to a source algebra of the Brauer correspondent of b