This book describes some computational methods to deal with modular characters of finite groups. It is the theoretical background of the MOC system of the same authors. This system was, and is still used, to compute the modular character tables of sporadic simple groups.
We study the category of representations of $mathfrak{sl}_{m+2n}$ in positive characteristic, whose p-character is a nilpotent whose Jordan type is the two-row partition (m+n,n). In a previous paper with Anno, we used Bezrukavnikov-Mirkovic-Rumynins theory of positive characteristic localization and exotic t-structures to give a geometric parametrization of the simples using annular crossingless matchings. Building on this, here we give combinatorial dimension formulae for the simple objects, and compute the Jordan-Holder multiplicities of the simples inside the baby Vermas (in special case where n=1, i.e. that a subregular nilpotent, these were known from work of Jantzen). We use Cautis-Kamnitzers geometric categorification of the tangle calculus to study the images of the simple objects under the [BMR] equivalence. The dimension formulae may be viewed as a positive characteristic analogue of the combinatorial character formulae for simple objects in parabolic category O for $mathfrak{sl}_{m+2n}$, due to Lascoux and Schutzenberger.
This paper is a continuation of [GLT], which develops a level theory and establishes strong character bounds for finite simple groups of linear and unitary type in the case that the centralizer of the element has small order compared to $|G|$ in a logarithmic sense. We strengthen the results of [GLT] and extend them to all groups of classical type.
We explore the modular representation theory of affine and cyclotomic Yokonuma-Hecke algebras. We provide an equivalence between the category of finite dimensional representations of the affine (resp. cyclotomic) Yokonuma-Hecke algebra and that of an algebra which is a direct sum of tensor products of affine Hecke algebras of type $A$ (resp. Ariki-Koike algebras). As one of the applications, the irreducible representations of affine and cyclotomic Yokonuma-Hecke algebras are classified over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p$. Secondly, the modular branching rules for these algebras are obtained; moreover, the resulting modular branching graphs for cyclotomic Yokonuma-Hecke algebras are identified with crystal graphs of irreducible integrable representations of affine Lie algebras of type $A.$
We establish a Springer correspondence for classical symmetric pairs making use of Fourier transform, a nearby cycle sheaf construction and parabolic induction. In particular, we give an explicit description of character sheaves for classical symmetric pairs.
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p > 0$ and let $G$ be a connected reductive algebraic group over $k$. Under some standard hypothesis on $G$, we give a direct approach to the finite $W$-algebra $U(mathfrak g,e)$ associated to a nilpotent element $e in mathfrak g = operatorname{Lie} G$. We prove a PBW theorem and deduce a number of consequences, then move on to define and study the $p$-centre of $U(mathfrak g,e)$, which allows us to define reduced finite $W$-algebras $U_eta(mathfrak g,e)$ and we verify that they coincide with those previously appearing in the work of Premet. Finally, we prove a modular version of Skryabins equivalence of categories, generalizing recent work of the second author.