Speaker: Gaëtan Mancini (Wuppertal)
Title: On the Alperin-McKay Conjecture for Groups of Exceptional Type
Abstract:
The Alperin-McKay conjecture relates the number of height 0 characters in a block and in its Brauer correspondent. The proof of the conjecture has been reduced to the verification of certain conditions on (quasi-)simple groups. In this talk we will discuss the techniques used to verify these conditions for finite reductive groups of exceptional type.