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Publications and source records attributed to Niamh Farrell.
We define oriented Temperley--Lieb algebras for classical Hermitian symmetric spaces. This allows us to explain the existence of closed combinatorial formulae for the Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials for these spaces.
We compute the trivial source character tables (also called species tables of the trivial source ring) of the infinite family of finite groups $\text{SL}_{2}(q)$ for $q$ even, over a large enough field $k$ of positive characteristic ${\ell}$ not dividing $q$. This article is a continuation of our article Trivial Source Character Tables of $\text{SL}_{2}(q)$ where we considered, in particular, the case in which $q$ is odd in cross-characteristic.
We compute the trivial source character tables (also called species tables of the trivial source ring) of the infinite family of finite groups SL(2,q) over a large enough field of positive characteristic $\ell$ via character-theoretical methods in the cases in which $q$ is odd, $\ell \mid (q\pm1)$ when~$\ell$ is odd, and $q\equiv \pm 3\pmod{8}$ when $\ell=2$.
Let $\ell$ be a prime number. We show that the Morita Frobenius number of an $\ell$-block of a quasi-simple finite group is at most 4 and that the strong Frobenius number is at most $4|D|^2!$, where D denotes a defect group of the block. We deduce that a basic algebra of any block of the group algebra of a quasi-simple finite group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $\ell$ is defined over a field with $\ell^a$ elements for some $a \leq 4$. We derive consequences for Donovan's conjecture. In particular, we show that Donovan's conjecture holds for $\ell$-blocks of special linear groups.
We prove that for all non-abelian finite simple groups $S$, there exists a fake mth Galois action on IBr$(X)$ with respect to $X \lhd X \rtimes $ Aut$(X)$, where $X$ is the universal covering group of $S$ and $m$ is any non-negative integer coprime to the order of $X$. This is one of the two inductive conditions needed to prove an $\ell$-modular analogue of the Glauberman-Isaacs correspondence.
We show that the Morita Frobenius number of the blocks of the alternating groups, the finite groups of Lie type in describing characteristic, and the Ree and Suzuki groups is 1. We also show that the Morita Frobenius number of almost all of the unipotent blocks of the finite groups of Lie type in non-defining characteristic is 1, and that in the remaining cases it is at most 2.