Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 5 4 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use finite-dimensional -modules or finite -free lattices. We use the basic relative-projectivity facts that Krull-Schmidt decomposition holds with local endomorphism rings, module vertices are conjugate p-subgroups, and a module source at a module vertex satisfies and . Module induction is transitive and Mackey restriction formula gives module vertex containment for restrictions and inductions. In particular, a summand induced from has module vertex conjugate into , and module restriction to a subgroup containing a chosen module vertex retains a summand with that module vertex. The latter follows from the module source conditions and minimality: restricting further to must still contain its module source, whose module vertex is .
The module vertex- form of Green correspondence states that for there is a bijection between indecomposable -modules with module vertex and indecomposable -modules with module vertex . Its maps select the unique module vertex- summands of module restriction and induction, using -conjugacy for restricted module vertices and -conjugacy for induced module vertices. They occur with multiplicity one and have the same module sources. Other induction summands have module vertices conjugate to proper subgroups of . The module restriction remainder is relatively projective forRelative projectivity for a family means being a summand of a finite sum of inductions from its members. We prove this form; no stronger description of the induction remainder is needed for the application.
Let have module vertex over . The identity double coset in Mackey restriction formula givesSince is relatively -projective, a further Mackey decomposition puts every other double coset term in the relatively- family. No member of contains an -conjugate of . Otherwise, conjugation within would give with , . Equality of orders then makes , a contradiction. Therefore the module restriction above contains exactly one summand with module vertex -conjugate to , namely once.
Decompose into indecomposable modules. All their module vertices are conjugate into . Each one with a module vertex -conjugate to can take itself as module vertex and contributes a module vertex- summand on module restriction to . There can thus be at most one such summand and its multiplicity is one. There must be at least one, because smaller module vertices cannot restrict to produce , with module vertex , in the displayed decomposition. Define to be that summand. Its module restriction contains once, with remainder a summand of . All other induction summands have strictly smaller module vertices. This is Green correspondence from Mackey multiplicity.
Conversely take of module vertex over with module source . Decompose into indecomposable modules. Since , the local endomorphism ring and Krull-Schmidt decomposition give for one indecomposable summand of . Its module vertex is -conjugate to : all module vertices are conjugate into , and a smaller one could not induce . The preceding uniqueness makes and identifies as the unique module vertex- summand of . Define . This proves and .
If is a module source of , then and . These two conditions and the common module vertex show that is also a module source of . Thus the correspondence preserves module sources, including trivial source modules, and the proof is complete under the stated coefficient conventions.
For the required expression, a p-local module is a finite sum of inductions from for nontrivial p-subgroups . Induct on the order of a module vertex of . Vertex 1 makes projective, so choose , .
For module vertex , take for . Its module induction is p-local andwith smaller module vertices for the . By induction, writewith p-local and projective. Adding these identities and substituting the induction decomposition givesHence the explicit choiceswork. All sums are finite and module vertex orders strictly decrease, so the induction terminates. If , induction from that normalizer is still allowed by the definition of p-local.