The alternating-group bismash-product Schur indicator conjecture

For n3n\geq 3, let H=kC2#kAnH=\Bbbk^{C_2}\#\Bbbk A_n, and let ν[2](χ^)\nu^{[2]}(\widehat{\chi}) denote the Schur indicator of an irreducible character χ^\widehat{\chi} of HH.

Alternating-group indicator conjecture. The indicator satisfies

ν[2](χ^){0,1}.\nu^{[2]}(\widehat{\chi})\in\{0,1\}.

The analogous statement for kAn#kC2\Bbbk^{A_n}\#\Bbbk C_2 is proved for n4n\geq4. The dual statement is motivated by twisted Frobenius–Schur indicator theory and had been checked computationally through n=13n=13, but the general case remains open.

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Joseph Timmer, “Indicators of Bismash Products from Exact Symmetric Group Factorizations”, arXiv:1412.4725 (2015).

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