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Block centre locality and trace ideal sums

Statement

The centre Z(B) of a finite-dimensional block B=kGb is a local algebra. If b is a sum of elements belonging to finitely many ideals of Z(B), then one of those ideals contains b. In particular the images TrHG(BH)Z(B) are ideals to which this assertion applies.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A block B with identity b.

[F1]

The block bimodule is indecomposable and its endomorphisms are central multiplication. (Block bimodule for the double group)

[F2]

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

technique · direct
1.1

For cZ(B), choose n so the kernels and images of multiplication by cn stabilize. Their intersection is zero: cnx in the kernel gives c2nx=0, hence cnx=0. Rank-nullity now gives B=kercnimcn as bimodules. Indecomposability forces one summand to be zero. Thus c is nilpotent or multiplication by c is bijective. In the latter case a preimage of b is its inverse and commutes with B, so c is a unit in Z(B).

F1F2
2.1

Nonunits in this commutative algebra are nilpotent. A sum of two nilpotents is nilpotent by expanding (c+d)r+s when cr=ds=0; 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 b=zj with zj in specified ideals, some zj must be a unit, since a sum of nonunits cannot equal b. Its ideal contains zj1zj=b.

step 1.1
3.1

For aBH the trace is G-fixed, hence central. For cZ(B), cTrHG(a)=TrHG(ca) and caBH. The trace image is a linear subspace stable under central multiplication, hence an ideal, proving the stated application.

step 2.1

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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