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Irreducible Tensor Products for Alternating Groups in Characteristic 5

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In this paper we study irreducible tensor products of representations of alternating groups and classify such products in characteristic 5.

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The author thanks Alexander Kleshchev for some comments on parts of the paper.

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While finishing writing this paper the author was supported by the DFG grant MO 3377/1-1. The author was also supported by the NSF grant DMS-1440140 and Simons Foundation while in residence at the MSRI during the Spring 2018 semester.

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Morotti, L. Irreducible Tensor Products for Alternating Groups in Characteristic 5. Algebr Represent Theor 24, 203–229 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10468-019-09941-0

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Keywords

  • Alternating groups
  • Irreducible tensor products

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  • 20C20