On the values of unipotent characters in bad characteristic

  • Meinolf Geck

    Universität Stuttgart, Germany
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Abstract

Let be a Chevalley group over a finite field . By Lusztig’s and Shoji’s work, the problem of computing the values of the unipotent characters of is solved, in principle, by the theory of character sheaves; one issue in this solution is the determination of certain scalars relating two types of class functions on . We show that this issue can be reduced to the case where is a prime, which opens the way to use computer algebra methods. Here, and in a sequel to this article, we use this approach to solve a number of cases in groups of exceptional type which seemed hitherto out of reach.

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Meinolf Geck, On the values of unipotent characters in bad characteristic. Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 141 (2019), pp. 37–63

DOI 10.4171/RSMUP/14