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Tables of Green Functions for Exceptional Groups

On this page we provide data files containing the generalized Green functions for untwisted finite groups of Lie type coming from adjoint simple algebraic groups of exceptional type.

The files below can be read into both GAP3 and GAP4. The data are given in terms of a parameter q which describes the order of the finite field over which a group is defined.

If in your GAP session the variable q is bound before reading one of these data files, then q will be specialized to this value when reading the data. If q is unbound it will be assigned an indeterminate over the Cyclotomics with name "q".

The data are stored in GAP records and can be accessed as follows:

.table[i][j]
values of Green functions as polynomials in q. The indices i correspond to the Green functions and j to the unipotent classes.
.charInfo[i]
labeling of Green function number i. This is a pair describing the type of a Levi subgroup ("A_0" corresponds to the ordinary Green functions) and a label for the conjugacy class in the relative Weyl group.
.classInfo[j]
description of unipotent class number j. Given as a pair, a label for the geometric class and a counter for the rational classes.
.classLengths[j]
size of unipotent class number j. Given as polynomial in q.
.GFOrder
order of the group. Also as polynomial in q.

The Data

Click on the filenames to view or download the data. The right colums gives the names of the GAP records containing the data. In type E8 there are two such records whose data are relevant if q is congruent to 1 or 2 modulo 3, respectively.

Filename       record name(s)
GreenG2good.g greenG2good
GreenG2char2.g greenG2char2
GreenG2char3.g greenG2char3
GreenF4good.g greenF4good
GreenF4char2.g greenF4char2
GreenF4char3.g greenF4char3
GreenE6good.g greenE6good
GreenE6char2.g greenE6char2
GreenE6char3.g greenE6char3
GreenE7good.g greenE7good
GreenE7char2.g greenE7char2
GreenE7char3.g greenE7char3
GreenE8good.ggreenE8good1mod3, greenE8good2mod3
GreenE8char2_1mod3.ggreenE8char2_1mod3
GreenE8char2_2mod3.ggreenE8char2_2mod3
GreenE8char3.ggreenE8char3
GreenE8char5_1mod3.ggreenE8char5_1mod3
GreenE8char5_2mod3.ggreenE8char5_2mod3

References

These data were (re-)computed using the algorithm given in [5, Section 24]. The input is the generalized Springer correspondence given in [9] and character tables of Weyl groups from [1]. In fact, the mentioned algorithm from [5] does not yield the (generalized) Green functions as class functions but as linear combinations of certain functions which have support on the rational classes corresponding to one geometric unipotent class. For the values of these functions in good characteristic we are implicitly using the original references where all these tables were determined for the first time. For more details see the survey [8] and the references given there.

The bad characteristic cases were done later by various authors and we add the references here.

[1] Geck, M., Hiss, G., Lübeck, F., Malle, G. and Pfeiffer, G., CHEVIE---a system for computing and processing generic character tables, Appl. Algebra Engrg. Comm. Comput., 7 (3) (1996), 175--210
(Computational methods in Lie theory (Essen, 1994)).

[2] Geck, M., Computing Green functions in small characteristic, J. Algebra, 561, (2020), 163--199.

[3] Lübeck, F., Green functions in small characteristic, arXiv preprint, 2403.18190, (2024).

[4] Lübeck, F., Shoji, T., Generalized Green functions and unipotent classes for finite reductive groups, IV, arXiv preprint, 2408.16960, (2024).

[5] Lusztig, G., Character sheaves. V, Adv. in Math., 61 (2) (1986), 103--155.

[6] Malle, G., Green functions for groups of types E6 and F4 in characteristic 2, Comm. Algebra, 21, (1993), 747--798.

[7] Porsch, U., Die Greenfunktionen der endlichen Gruppen E6(q), q=3n, Universität Heidelberg, Diploma thesis, (1994).

[8] Shoji, T., Green functions of reductive groups over a finite field, in The Arcata Conference on Representations of Finite Groups (Arcata, Calif., 1986), Amer. Math. Soc., Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., 47, Providence, RI (1987), 289--301.

[9] Spaltenstein, N., On the generalized Springer correspondence for exceptional groups, in Algebraic groups and related topics (Kyoto/Nagoya, 1983), North-Holland, Adv. Stud. Pure Math., 6, Amsterdam (1985), 317--338.


Zuletzt geändert: Do 12.12.2024, 23:00:03 (UTC)