Decompositions of Small Tensor Powers and Larsen's Conjecture

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2005-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/math/0502080v1

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Group Theory

83 pages, to appear in Representation Theory

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We classify all pairs (G,V) with G a closed subgroup in a classical group with natural module V over the complex numbers such that G has the same composition factors on the kth tensor power of V, for a fixed (small) k. In particular, we prove Larsen's conjecture stating that for dim(V) > 6 and k = 4, there are no such G aside from those containing the derived subgroup of the classical group. We also find all the examples where this fails for dim(V) < 7. As a consequence of our results, we obtain a short proof of a related conjecture of Katz. These conjectures are used in Katz's recent works on monodromy groups attached to Lefschetz pencils and to character sums over finite fields. Modular versions of these conjectures are also studied, with a particular application to random generation in finite groups of Lie type.

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