Let be a unitary space. For an arbitrary subgroup of the full symmetric group and an arbitrary irreducible unitary representation of , we study the generalized symmetry class of tensors over associated with and . Some important properties of this vector space are investigated.
We continue the study of the category of functors , associated to ₂-vector spaces equipped with a nondegenerate quadratic form, initiated in J. Pure Appl. Algebra 212 (2008) and Algebr. Geom. Topology 7 (2007). We define a filtration of the standard projective objects in ; this refines to give a decomposition into indecomposable factors of the first two standard projective objects in : and . As an application of these two decompositions, we give a complete description of the polynomial functors...
We investigate gradings on tame blocks of group algebras whose defect groups are dihedral. For this subfamily of tame blocks we classify gradings up to graded Morita equivalence, we transfer gradings via derived equivalences, and we check the existence, positivity and tightness of gradings. We classify gradings by computing the group of outer automorphisms that fix the isomorphism classes of simple modules.
Given a field K of characteristic p > 2 and a finite group G, necessary and sufficient conditions for the unit group U(KG) of the group algebra KG to be centrally metabelian are obtained. It is observed that U(KG) is centrally metabelian if and only if KG is Lie centrally metabelian.