Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4588209 | Journal of Algebra | 2007 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
A recent result by H. Meyer shows that, for a field F of characteristic p>0 and a finite group G with an abelian Sylow p-subgroup, the F-subspace Zp′FG of the group algebra FG spanned by all p-regular class sums in G is multiplicatively closed, i.e. a subalgebra of the center ZFG of FG. Here we generalize this result to blocks. More precisely, we show that, for a block A of a group algebra FG with an abelian defect group, the F-subspace Zp′A:=A∩Zp′FG is multiplicatively closed, i.e. a subalgebra of the center ZA of A. We also show that this subalgebra is invariant under perfect isometries and hence under derived equivalences.
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