Ortho-ambivalence des groupes finis / Ortho-ambivalence of finite groups
(2008)
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- Tignol, Jean-Pierre
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- (en) Let G be a finite group and k a field whose characteristic does not divide the order of G. It is established, on the one hand that all irreducible characters of G are real if and only if G is ambivalent; in addition, that the restriction of the canonical involution on each simple component of the group algebra kG is an involution of first kind if and only if G is ambivalent. We say that G is ortho-ambivalent compared to k if the restriction of the canonical involution on each simple component of the group algebra kG is an orthogonal involution. In this thesis, we show that the following conditions are equivalent: (I) G is ortho-ambivalent compared to k; (II) G is totaly orthogonal; (III) G is ambivalent and any irreducible character of G is of type 1; (iv) G is ambivalent and the sum of the degrees of the irreducible characters of G equalizes the number of elements of G whose squares are equal to the neutral element of G; moreover, if the characteristic of k is different from 2, these conditions are equivalent to the following one: (v) G is ambivalent and the first twisted Witt group of the category of the free kG-modules finitely generated provided with a duality defined according to the canonical involution on kG is trivial. The study of the special 2-groups occupies a great part. We show that an ambivalent special 2-group G of quadratic application q is ortho-ambivalent compared to k if and only if for any linear form s on the center of G (compared to the field with 2 elements), the Arf invariant of the quadratic form induced by the transfer of q by s is null.
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Ntabuhashe Zahinda, O. (2008). Ortho-ambivalence des groupes finis / Ortho-ambivalence of finite groups. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/136031