Cartan matrix of a group algebra 2026-10-03
The Cartan matrix records composition-factor multiplicities in the projective indecomposable modules. For a split modular group algebra, it iswhere is the decomposition matrix.
On the 2-regular classes the six ordinary characters decompose asTherefore the decomposition matrix, with columns ordered , isThe Cartan matrix of a group algebra is
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 138 6 c Solution 2026-10-03
The decomposition matrix separates into two connected components. The first contains and ; it is the principal block . The second contains only and ; since contains the full 5-part of , this is a defect-zero representation and its block has defect group .
The defect group of the principal block is a Sylow 5-subgroup . There are six Sylow 5-subgroups in , so the orbit-stabilizer theorem givesThe centralizer of a 5-cycle in is , and an involution in the normalizer acts on by inversion. HenceIn characteristic five the simple -modules are inflated from : their Brauer characters are and on the identity and involution classes. If are the two one-dimensional and two two-dimensional ordinary characters of , their reductions areThe resulting decomposition matrix is connected, so these characters form the unique 5-block of , with defect group . By the Brauer first main theorem,This is the complete 5-modular blocks of A5 correspondence.