Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 4 5 b ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Take and . If , the Nagao module theorem with puts every vertex- summand of inside . In particular its Green correspondence summand satisfies .
Conversely a central idempotent acts as zero or one on the indecomposable module . If , apply the same theorem to . Its Brauer image is , so , incompatible with . Thus
For the unheaded induction request, write . We prove the sharper intersection bound, not just a drop in module vertex size. We use Green correspondence on permutation bimodules and the usual module vertex test for a permutation-module summand: its Brauer quotient of a module at is nonzero precisely when a module vertex contains a conjugate of . This test follows by restricting to the -group , decomposing the permutation basis into its orbits, and noting that proper-orbit sums are precisely the proper-subgroup transfer terms.
Consider as a -module, with . It is the transitive permutation module induced from . Set and ; the latter contains . Its restriction decomposes asEach outside term has stabilizer a conjugate of a subgroup of . If a diagonal subgroup embeds into one of these stabilizers, then for an outside representative. Thus its diagonal module vertices are in the intersection error family.
Every indecomposable -summand of has module vertex . To justify this, its endomorphisms are right multiplications by elements of . The coefficient projection on this algebra has nilpotent kernel: every nonsingleton -orbit sum lies in the kernel of , by part 1(b), and that kernel is nilpotent by part 1(a). Hence no nonzero idempotent endomorphism can have zero Brauer image. Its image summand has nonzero Brauer quotient of a module at , and its module vertex, already contained in a conjugate of , must be .
Apply the general Green correspondence from part (a) to . If an indecomposable summand of has module vertex outside the intersection error family, its correspondent must be a summand of , since the outside double-coset modules have only error-family module vertices. It therefore has module vertex . Consequently every summand of not having module vertex has module vertex conjugate into an outside diagonal intersection. An intersectionwith projects in its first coordinate into with ; this is the error family required in the question.
Now form the split permutation bimoduleIts Brauer quotient of a module at is zero. Indeed , left multiplication by becomes multiplication by , and right multiplication by remains multiplication by . ThereforeHere is central in , so the last product is zero. Every indecomposable bimodule summand of consequently has module vertex in the outside intersection family, by the preceding paragraph, and has trivial module source since it is a permutation-module summand.
Since has vertex , necessarily . Let be a module source of at . The splitting remains a splitting after applying , since . Inducing to and applying givesA trivial-source bimodule summand with module vertex conjugate into is a summand of . Tensoring with turns this into a module induced to from (with the appropriate conjugate restriction of ). Thus every summand on the right is relatively projective for some , . Each lies in the left-hand side, and Krull–Schmidt theorem now givesThis proves Juhász induction refinement. If there are no outside elements, the error family is empty and the complementary module is zero.