The Broué invariant of a Morita equivalence with an endopermutation source
Abstract
A perfect isometry I (introduced by Broué) between two blocks b and c is a frequent phenomenon in the block theory of finite groups. It maps an irreducible character ψ of c to ± an irreducible character of b. Broué proved that the ratio of the codegrees of ψ and I(ψ) is a rational number with p-value zero and that its class in 𝔽p is independent of ψ. This element is called the Broué invariant of I by Boltje. The goal of this paper is to show that if I comes from a Morita equivalence with an endopermutation source V, then, up to a sign, the Broué invariant of I is determined by local data of b and c. Therefore, up to a sign, it is independent of the endopermutation-source Morita equivalence. Moreover, we show that the sign factor is given by the reduction of the rank of V modulo p. As a corollary, we obtain that the Isaacs--Navarro refinement of the Alperin--McKay conjecture holds for inertial blocks.
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BibTeX
@misc{huang2026broué,
title = {{The Broué invariant of a Morita equivalence with an endopermutation source}},
author = {Xin Huang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.06560},
eprint = {2610.06560},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06560},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The Broué invariant of a Morita equivalence with an endopermutation source
AU - Xin Huang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.06560
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06560
AB - A perfect isometry I (introduced by Broué) between two blocks b and c is a frequent phenomenon in the block theory of finite groups. It maps an irreducible character ψ of c to ± an irreducible character of b. Broué proved that the ratio of the codegrees of ψ and I(ψ) is a rational number with p-value zero and that its class in 𝔽_p is independent of ψ. This element is called the Broué invariant of I by Boltje. The goal of this paper is to show that if I comes from a Morita equivalence with an endopermutation source V, then, up to a sign, the Broué invariant of I is determined by local data of b and c. Therefore, up to a sign, it is independent of the endopermutation-source Morita equivalence. Moreover, we show that the sign factor is given by the reduction of the rank of V modulo p. As a corollary, we obtain that the Isaacs--Navarro refinement of the Alperin--McKay conjecture holds for inertial blocks.
ER -