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Block centre locality and trace ideal sums
Statement
The centre of a finite-dimensional block is a local algebra. If is a sum of elements belonging to finitely many ideals of , then one of those ideals contains . In particular the images are ideals to which this assertion applies.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A block with identity .
The block bimodule is indecomposable and its endomorphisms are central multiplication. (Block bimodule for the double group)
The finite-dimensional setting permits indecomposable decomposition and Fitting stabilization. (Finite-dimensional kG-modules decompose as finite direct sums of indecomposables uniquely up to order and isomorphism)
Proof
For , choose so the kernels and images of multiplication by stabilize. Their intersection is zero: in the kernel gives , hence . Rank-nullity now gives as bimodules. Indecomposability forces one summand to be zero. Thus is nilpotent or multiplication by is bijective. In the latter case a preimage of is its inverse and commutes with , so is a unit in .
Nonunits in this commutative algebra are nilpotent. A sum of two nilpotents is nilpotent by expanding when ; scalar multiplication by any central element also preserves nilpotence. Nonunits therefore form a proper ideal containing all proper ideals, which is the unique maximal ideal. If with in specified ideals, some must be a unit, since a sum of nonunits cannot equal . Its ideal contains .
For the trace is -fixed, hence central. For , and . The trace image is a linear subspace stable under central multiplication, hence an ideal, proving the stated application.
Sources
Webb, A Course in Finite Group Representation Theory, §§11.3, 11.6 and 12.3–12.5, especially pp.240–245. Local argument and conventions as displayed above.
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Sources
- Webb, A Course in Finite Group Representation Theory, §§11.3, 11.6 and 12.3–12.5, especially pp.240–245 (standard reference, not scraped)