arXiv · 2310.11421
Characters of the unitriangular group and the Mackey method
Abstract
Let $U$ be the unitriangular group over a finite field. We consider an interesting class of irreducible complex characters of $U$, so-called characters of depth 2. This is a next natural step after characters of maximal and submaximal dimension, whose description is already known. We explicitly describe the support of a character of depth 2 by a system of defining algebraic equations. After that, we calculate the value of such a character on an element from the support. The main technical tool used in the proofs is the Mackey little group method for semidirect products.
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Mikhail Ignatev, Mikhail Venchakov. 2023-10-17. Characters of the unitriangular group and the Mackey method. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11421
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