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Advances in Mathematics

Volume 254, 20 March 2014, Pages 706-735
Advances in Mathematics

2-blocks with abelian defect groups

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Abstract

We give a classification, up to Morita equivalence, of 2-blocks of quasi-simple groups with abelian defect groups. As a consequence, we show that Donovanʼs conjecture holds for elementary abelian 2-groups, and that the entries of the Cartan matrices are bounded in terms of the defect for arbitrary abelian 2-groups. We also show that a block with defect groups of the form C2m×C2m for m2 has one of two Morita equivalence types and hence is Morita equivalent to the Brauer correspondent block of the normaliser of a defect group. This completes the analysis of the Morita equivalence types of 2-blocks with abelian defect groups of rank 2, from which we conclude that Donovanʼs conjecture holds for such 2-groups. A further application is the completion of the determination of the number of irreducible characters in a block with abelian defect groups of order 16. The proof uses the classification of finite simple groups.

Keywords

Block
Defect
Character
Donovanʼs conjecture
Cartan invariant
Morita equivalence
Brauer correspondence

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