We show that any block of a group algebra of some finite group which is of wild representation type has many families of stable tubes.

Assume that S is a commutative complete discrete valuation domain of characteristic p, S* is the unit group of S and $G=G_p\times B$ is a finite group, where $G_p$ is a p-group and B is a p’-group. Denote by $S^{\lambda }G$ the twisted group algebra of G over S with a 2-cocycle λ ∈ Z²(G,S*). We give necessary and sufficient conditions for $S^{\lambda }G$ to be of OTP representation type, in the sense that every indecomposable $S^{\lambda }G$-module is isomorphic to the outer tensor product V W of an indecomposable $S^{\lambda }{G}_p$-module V and an irreducible $S^{\lambda }B$-module...

Let $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p$ be the ring of p-adic integers, $U\left(\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p\right)$ the unit group of $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p$ and $G=G_p\times B$ a finite group, where $G_p$ is a p-group and B is a p’-group. Denote by $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p^{\lambda }G$ the twisted group algebra of G over $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p$ with a 2-cocycle $\lambda \in Z²(G,U\left(\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p\right))$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p^{\lambda }G$ to be of OTP representation type, in the sense that every indecomposable $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p^{\lambda }G$-module is isomorphic to the outer tensor product V W of an indecomposable $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p^{\lambda }{G}_p$-module V and an irreducible $\mathbb{Z}{̂}_p^{\lambda }B$-module W.

We characterize the unit group of semisimple group algebras ${𝔽}_{q}G$ of some non-metabelian groups, where $F_q$ is a field with $q=p^k$ elements for $p$ prime and a positive integer $k$. In particular, we consider all 6 non-metabelian groups of order 48, the only non-metabelian group $((C_3\times C_3)⋊C_3)⋊C_2$ of order 54, and 7 non-metabelian groups of order 72. This completes the study of unit groups of semisimple group algebras for groups upto order 72.

For a finite group $G$ and a non-linear irreducible complex character $\chi$ of $G$ write $\upsilon \left(\chi \right)=\{g\in G\mid \chi (g)=0\}$. In this paper, we study the finite non-solvable groups $G$ such that $\upsilon \left(\chi \right)$ consists of at most two conjugacy classes for all but one of the non-linear irreducible characters $\chi$ of $G$. In particular, we characterize a class of finite solvable groups which are closely related to the above-mentioned question and are called solvable $\varphi$-groups. As a corollary, we answer Research Problem $2$ in [Y. Berkovich and L. Kazarin: Finite...

We show that the Braden-MacPherson algorithm computes the stalks of parity sheaves. As a consequence we deduce that the Braden-MacPherson algorithm may be used to calculate the characters of tilting modules for algebraic groups and show that the $p$-smooth locus of a (Kac-Moody) Schubert variety coincides with the rationally smooth locus, if the underlying Bruhat graph satisfies a GKM-condition.

Let k be a field and G a finite group. By analogy with the theory of phantom maps in topology, a map f : M → ℕ between kG-modules is said to be phantom if its restriction to every finitely generated submodule of M factors through a projective module. We investigate the relationships between the theory of phantom maps, the algebraic theory of purity, and Rickard's idempotent modules. In general, adding one to the pure global dimension of kG gives an upper bound for the number of phantoms we need...

The main purpose of this paper is to exhibit the cutoff phenomenon, studied by Aldous and Diaconis [AD]. Let $Q^{*k}$ denote a transition kernel after k steps and π be a stationary measure. We have to find a critical value $k_n$ for which the total variation norm between $Q^{*k}$ and π stays very close to 1 for $k\ll k_n$, and falls rapidly to a value close to 0 for $k\ge k_n$ with a fall-off phase much shorter than $k_n$. According to the work of Diaconis and Shahshahani [DS], one can naturally conjecture, for a conjugacy class with...

Soient $F$ un corps $p$-adique, $G={\mathrm{GL}}_3\left(F\right)$. Pour $\chi$ un caractère de l’algèbre de Hecke sphérique de $G$ sur un anneau commutatif $k$, on introduit à la suite de Serre une représentation lisse $M_{\chi }$ de $G$ sur $k$ qui gouverne la théorie des représentations non ramifiées de $G$ sur $k$. Nous prouvons que $M_{\chi }$ est plat sur $k$ et que si $p$ est inversible dans $k$, alors pour tout sous-groupe compact ouvert suffisament petit $U$ de $G$, le module $M_{\chi }^U$ est libre de rang fini sur $k$. Ceci était conjecturé par Lazarus. Comme corollaire, nous obtenons...