144 research outputs found
On the distribution of class groups of number fields
We propose a modification of the predictions of the Cohen--Lenstra heuristic
for class groups of number fields in the case where roots of unity are present
in the base field. As evidence for this modified formula we provide a large set
of computational data which show close agreement.Comment: 14 pages. To appear in Experimental Mat
A Murnaghan--Nakayama rule for values of unipotent characters in classical groups
We derive a Murnaghan--Nakayama type formula for the values of unipotent
characters of finite classical groups on regular semisimple elements. This
relies on Asai's explicit decomposition of Lusztig restriction. We use our
formula to show that most complex irreducible characters vanish on some
-singular element for certain primes .
As an application we classify the simple endotrivial modules of the finite
quasi-simple classical groups. As a further application we show that for finite
simple classical groups and primes the first Cartan invariant in the
principal -block is larger than~2 unless Sylow -subgroups are
cyclic.Comment: Added a missing assumption to the statement of theorem 2. 25.11.16:
Added a corrigendum to the proof of Thm. 7.
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