Exotic characters of unitriangular matrix groups

Details Exotic characters of unitriangular matrix groups Exotic characters of unitriangular matrix groups

2010-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/1012.2192v1

J. Pure Appl. Algebra 216 (2012), 239-254

Mathematics

Representation Theory

24 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.jpaa.2011.06.003

Let $\UT_n(q)$ denote the unitriangular group of unipotent $n\times n$ upper triangular matrices over a finite field with cardinality $q$ and prime characteristic $p$. It has been known for some time that when $p$ is fixed and $n$ is sufficiently large, $\UT_n(q)$ has ``exotic'' irreducible characters taking values outside the cyclotomic field $\QQ(\zeta_p)$. However, all proofs of this fact to date have been both non-constructive and computer dependent. In a preliminary work, we defined a family of orthogonal characters decomposing the supercharacters of an arbitrary algebra group. By applying this construction to the unitriangular group, we are able to derive by hand an explicit description of a family of characters of $\UT_n(q)$ taking values in arbitrarily large cyclotomic fields. In particular, we prove that if $r$ is a positive integer power of $p$ and $n>6r$, then $\UT_n(q)$ has an irreducible character of degree $q^{5r^2-2r}$ which takes values outside $\QQ(\zeta_{pr})$. By the same techniques, we are also able to construct explicit Kirillov functions which fail to be characters of $\UT_n(q)$ when $n>12$ and $q$ is arbitrary.

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