Donovan's conjecture for blocks with fixed defect group

Let \ell be a prime, let kk be the coefficient field, and let DD be a finite \ell-group. For a finite group GG, a block BB of kGkG has defect group isomorphic to DD if its defect group is isomorphic to DD.

Donovan's conjecture. Amongst all finite groups GG and blocks BB of kGkG with defect group isomorphic to DD, there are only finitely many Morita equivalence classes.

If true, this would imply that Morita Frobenius numbers are bounded in terms of a function of the isomorphism class of the defect group. The paper's main theorem shows that Morita Frobenius numbers can nevertheless be arbitrarily large when the defect group varies; the conjecture's status is not resolved in the supplied context.

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Primary source

Florian Eisele and Michael Livesey, “Arbitrarily large Morita Frobenius numbers”, arXiv:2006.13837 (2020).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1908.06680, arXiv:1805.02015, arXiv:1803.03539.

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