McKay–Navarro conjecture for principal blocks

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Let GG be a finite group, let pp be a prime, and let PP be a Sylow pp-subgroup of GG. Let B0B_0 be the principal pp-block of GG and b0b_0 the principal pp-block of NG(P)N_G(P). Let H\mathcal H be the subgroup of Galois automorphisms that act by a power map on roots of unity of order prime to pp, and let Irr⁡p′(B0)\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(B_0) denote the irreducible characters in B0B_0 of degree prime to pp. McKay–Navarro conjecture for principal blocks. Every σ∈H\sigma\in\mathcal H fixes the same number of characters in Irr⁡p′(B0)\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(B_0) as in Irr⁡p′(b0)\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(b_0), namely

∣Irr⁡p′(B0)σ∣=∣Irr⁡p′(b0)σ∣.|\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(B_0)^\sigma|=|\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(b_0)^\sigma|.

This is the principal-block instance of the blockwise McKay–Navarro conjecture and would imply the preceding 2-generation criterion in the relevant case; the source treats it as open.

References

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Noelia Rizo, A. A. Schaeffer Fry and Carolina Vallejo, “Galois action on the principal block and cyclic Sylow subgroups”, arXiv:1912.05329 (2020).

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