Conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups of general linear groups

Details Conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups of general linear groups Conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups of general linear groups

2000-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/math/0001031v1

Mathematics

Group Theory

23 pages, 6 figures. See also http://zaphod.uchicago.edu/~murray/research/index.html . Submitted to Journal of Algebra

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We compute conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups of the general linear group. This computation proceeds by reducing to a ``matrix problem''. Such problems involve finding normal forms for matrices under a specified set of row and column operations. We solve the relevant matrix problem in small dimensional cases. This gives us all conjugacy classes in maximal parabolic subgroups over a perfect field when one of the two blocks has dimension less than 6. In particular, this includes every maximal parabolic subgroup of GL_n(k) for n < 12 and k a perfect field. If our field is finite of size q, we also show that the number of conjugacy classes, and so the number of characters, of these groups is a polynomial in $q$ with integral coefficients.

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