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Let $q$ be an odd prime power, and $G=\text{Sp}(2n,q)$ the finite symplectic group. We give an expression for the total Stiefel-Whitney Classes (SWCs) for orthogonal representations $\pi$ of $G$, in terms of character values of $\pi$ at elements of order $2$. We give "universal formulas'' for the fourth and eighth SWCs. For $n=2$, we compute the subring of the mod $2$ cohomology generated by the SWCs $w_k(\pi)$., Comment: 22 pages

Let $q$ be a prime power, and $d$ a positive integer. We study the proportion of irreducible characters of $\mathrm{GL}(n,q)$ whose values evaluated on a fixed matrix $g$ are divisible by $d$. As $n$ approaches infinity, this proportion tends to $1$ when $q$ is coprime to $d$. When $q$ and $d$ are not coprime, and $g=1$, this proportion is bounded above by $\frac{1}{q}$., Comment: 20 pages

We compute the total Stiefel-Whitney Classes (SWCs) for orthogonal representations of special linear groups $\text{SL}(n,q)$ when $n$ and $q$ are odd. These classes are expressed in terms of character values at diagonal elements of order $2$. We give several consequences, and work out the $4$th SWC explicitly, and the $8$th SWC when the $4$th vanishes., Comment: 18 pages

Let $\mathfrak g$ be a reductive Lie algebra, and $m$ a positive integer. There is a natural density of irreducible representations of $\mathfrak g$, whose degrees are not divisible by $m$. For $\mathfrak g=\mathfrak{gl}_n$, this density decays exponentially to $0$ as $n \to \infty$. Similar results hold for simple Lie algebras and Lie groups, and there are versions for self-dual and orthogonal representations.

Let G be a group which is topologically a CW-complex, BG a classifying space for G, and A a discrete abelian group. To a central extension of G by A, one can associate a cohomology class in $H^2(BG,A)$. We show this association is injective, and bijective in many cases. A homomorphism to G lifts to the extension iff the pullback of the associated cohomology class vanishes.

We describe the Stiefel-Whitney classes (SWCs) of orthogonal representations $\pi$ of the finite special linear groups $G=\text{SL}(2,\mathbb F_q)$, in terms of character values of $\pi$. From this calculation, we can answer interesting questions about SWCs of $\pi$. For instance, we determine the subalgebra of $H^*(G,\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z)$ generated by the SWCs of orthogonal $\pi$, and we also determine which $\pi$ have nontrivial mod $2$ Euler class., Comment: 24 pages

In this note we present the Stiefel-Whitney classes (SWCs) for orthogonal representations of several finite groups of Lie type, namely for $G=\text{SL}(2,q),$ $\text{SL}(3,q),$ $\text{Sp}(4,q)$, and $\text{Sp}(6,q)$, with $q$ odd. We also describe the SWCs for $G=\text{SL}(2,q)$ when $q$ is even., Comment: 9 pages

Let $s,t$ be natural numbers, and fix an $s$-core partition $\sigma$ and a $t$-core partition $\tau$. Put $d=\gcd(s,t)$ and $m= lcm(s,t)$, and write $N_{\sigma, \tau}(k)$ for the number of $m$-core partitions of length no greater than $k$ whose $s$-core is $\sigma$ and $t$-core is $\tau$. We prove that for $k$ large, $N_{\sigma, \tau}(k)$ is a quasipolynomial of period $m$ and degree $\frac{1}{d}(s-d)(t-d)$., Comment: 31 pages, 3 figures

We determine which orthogonal representations V of GL(n,q) lift to the double cover Pin(V ) of the orthogonal group O(V ). We cover all n and prime powers q, except for (n; q) =(3,4).

A real representation $\pi$ of a finite group may be regarded as a homomorphism to an orthogonal group $\Or(V)$. For symmetric groups $S_n$, alternating groups $A_n$, and products $S_n \times S_{n'}$ of symmetric groups, we give criteria for whether $\pi$ lifts to the double cover $\Pin(V)$ of $\Or(V)$, in terms of character values. From these criteria, we compute the second Stiefel-Whitney classes of these representations.

Fix a partition $\mu=(\mu_1,\dotsc,\mu_m)$ of an integer $k$ and positive integer $d$. For each $n>k$, let $\chi^\lambda_\mu$ denote the value of the irreducible character of $S_n$ at a permutation with cycle type $(\mu_1,\dotsc,\mu_m,1^{n-k})$. We show that the proportion of partitions $\lambda$ of $n$ such that $\chi^\lambda_\mu$ is divisible by $d$ approaches $1$ as $n$ approaches infinity.

Let G be a connected reductive group over a field of characteristic zero, and consider an orthogonal representation of G. We give a simple criterion for whether the representation lifts to the spin group, in terms of the highest weights of the irreducible constituents of the representation.

Every irreducible odd dimensional representation of the $n$'th symmetric or hyperoctahedral group, when restricted to the $(n-1)$'th, has a unique irreducible odd-dimensional constituent. Furthermore, the subgraph induced by odd-dimensional representations in the Bratteli diagram of symmetric and hyperoctahedral groups is a binary tree with a simple recursive description. We survey the description of this tree, known as the Macdonald tree, for symmetric groups, from our earlier work. We describe analogous results for hyperoctahedral groups. A partition $\lambda$ of $n$ is said to be chiral if the corresponding irreducible representation $V_\lambda$ of $S_n$ has non-trivial determinant. We review our previous results on the structure and enumeration of chiral partitions, and subsequent extension to all Coxeter groups by Ghosh and Spallone. Finally we show that the numbers of odd and chiral partitions track each other closely., Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures. This article is a review article; mostly a survey of results in arXiv:1601.01776, arXiv:1604.08837, and arXiv:1710.03039

In [APS], the authors characterize the partitions of $n$ whose corresponding representations of $S_n$ have nontrivial determinant. The present paper extends this work to all irreducible finite Coxeter groups $W$. Namely, given a nontrivial multiplicative character $\omega$ of $W$, we give a closed formula for the number of irreducible representations of $W$ with determinant $\omega$. For Coxeter groups of type $B_n$ and $D_n$, this is accomplished by characterizing the bipartitions associated to such representations., Comment: 1 figure, 2 tables

We give a closed formula for the number of partitions $\lambda$ of $n$ such that the corresponding irreducible representation $V_\lambda$ of $S_n$ has non-trivial determinant. We determine how many of these partitions are self-conjugate and how many are hooks. This is achieved by characterizing the $2$-core towers of such partitions. We also obtain a formula for the number of partitions of $n$ such that the associated permutation representation of $S_n$ has non-trivial determinant., Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures

Let G be either an orthogonal, a symplectic or a unitary group over a local field F and let P = MN be a maximal parabolic subgroup. Then the Levi subgroup M is the product of a group of the same type as G and a general linear group, acting on vector spaces X and W, respectively. In this paper we decompose the unipotent radical N of P under the adjoint action of M, assuming dim W less than or equal to dim X, excluding only the symplectic case with dim W odd. The result is a Weyl-type integration formula for N with applications to the theory of intertwining operators for parabolically induced representations of G. Namely, one obtains a bilinear pairing on matrix coefficients in the spirit of Goldberg-Shahidi, which detects the presence of poles of these operators at 0., Comment: Subsumes the results of arXiv:1301.2192. The Jaocobian calculations for the case of unitary groups have been added. Some errors corrected from the previous version

We show that the subgraph induced in Young's graph by the set of partitions with an odd number of standard Young tableaux is a binary tree. This tree exhibits self-similarities at all scales, and has a simple recursive description., Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, available from http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~slc/wpapers/s75prasad.html

Let P be a maximal parabolic of a classical group over a field F. Then the Levi subgroup M is isomorphic to the product of a classical group and a general linear group, acting on vector spaces X and W, respectively. In this paper we decompose the unipotent radical N of P under the adjoint action of M, assuming dim W is less than or equal to dim X and that dim W is even. When F is a local field, we obtain a Weyl-type integration formula for N.

Let $R$ be a local principal ideal ring of length two, for example, the ring $R=\Z/p^2\Z$ with $p$ prime. In this paper we develop a theory of normal forms for similarity classes in the matrix rings $M_n(R)$ by interpreting them in terms of extensions of $R[t]$-modules. Using this theory, we describe the similarity classes in $M_n(R)$ for $n\leq 4$, along with their centralizers. Among these, we characterize those classes which are similar to their transposes. Non-self-transpose classes are shown to exist for all $n>3$. When $R$ has finite residue field of order $q$, we enumerate the similarity classes and the cardinalities of their centralizers as polynomials in $q$. Surprisingly, the polynomials representing the number of similarity classes in $M_n(R)$ turn out to have non-negative integer coefficients., Comment: 46 pages

Let $G$ be a connected reductive $p$-adic group and let $\theta$ be an automorphism of $G$ of order at most two. Suppose $\pi$ is an irreducible smooth representation of $G$ that is taken to its dual by $\theta$. The space $V$ of $\pi$ then carries a non-zero bilinear form $(\mspace{7mu},\mspace{6mu})$, unique up to scaling, with the invariance property $(\pi(g)v, \pi({}^{\theta}g)w) = (v,w)$, for $g \in G$ and $v, w \in V$. The form is easily seen to be symmetric or skew-symmetric and we set $\varepsilon_\theta(\pi) = \pm1$ accordingly. We use Cassleman's pairing (in commonly observed circumstances) to express $\varepsilon_\theta(\pi)$ in terms of certain Jacquet modules of $\pi$ and thus, via the Langlands classification, reduce the problem of determining the sign to the case of tempered representations. For the transpose-inverse involution of the general linear group, we show that the associated signs are always one., Comment: 16 pages

In this note, we consider locally invertible analytic mappings in two dimensions, with coefficients in a non-archimedean field. Suppose such a map has a Jacobian with eigenvalues $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2$ so that $|\lambda_1|>1$ and $\lambda_2$ is a positive power of $\lambda_1$, or that $\lambda_1=1$ and $|\lambda_2|\neq 1$. We prove that two formal maps with eigenvalues satisfying either of these conditions are analytically equivalent if and only if they are formally equivalent.

Let K be a p-adic field, and suppose that f and g are germs of analytic functions on K which are tangent to the identity at 0. It is known that f and g are homeomorphically equivalent, meaning there is an invertible germ h conjugating f to g. In this paper, we determine whether there exists such h which are lipeomorphisms, and moreover find the best possible Holder estimate at 0. Our results have striking complex and real counterparts.

Let G be a reductive algebraic group over Q, and suppose that Gamma is an arithmetic subgroup of G(R) defined by congruence conditions. A basic problem in arithmetic is to determine the multiplicities of discrete series representations in L^2(Gamma \ G(R)), and in general to determine the traces of Hecke operators on these spaces. In this paper we give a conjectural formula for the traces of Hecke operators, in terms of stable distributions. It is based on a stable version of Arthur's formula for L^2-Lefschetz numbers, which is due to Kottwitz. We reduce this formula to the computation of elliptic p-adic orbital integrals and the theory of endoscopic transfer. As evidence for this conjecture, we demonstrate the agreement of the central terms of this formula with the unipotent contributions to the multiplicity coming from Selberg's trace formula computed by Wakatsuki, in the case G=GSp_4 and Gamma=GSp_4(Z).

Let $\tilde{G}$ be a symplectic or even orthogonal group over a p-adic field $F$, and $M$ the Levi factor of a maximal parabolic subgroup of $\tilde{G}$. Suppose that $M$ has the shape of three blocks of the same size. Let $\pi$ be a supercuspidal representation of $M$. In this paper we give a simple explicit expression for the residue of the standard intertwining operator for the parabolic induction of $\pi$ from $M$ to $G$., Comment: Main paper by Steven Spallone, appendix by Freydoon Shahidi

In this note, we will consider the question of local equivalence of analytic functions which fix the origin and are tangent to the identity, as well as the question of flows of analytic vector fields. All mappings and equivalences are considered in the non-archimedean context e.g. all norms can be considered $p$-adic norms. We show that any two mappings $f$ and $g$ which are formally equivalent are also analytically equivalent, and we show that analytic vector fields generate analytic flows. We consider the related questions of roots and centralizers for analytic mappings. In this setting, anything which can be done formally can also be done analytically.

We give a simple explicit construction of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes using an improvement of the homological criterion of Casson-Bleiler., Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure

Write $\Theta^E$ for the stable character associated to a finite dimensional representation $E$ of a connected real reductive group $G$. Let $M$ be the centralizer of a maximal torus $T$, and denote by $\Phi_M(\gm,\Theta^E)$ Arthur's extension of $ |D_M^G(\gm)|^{\half} \Theta^E(\gm)$ to $T(\R)$. In this paper we give a simple explicit expression for $\Phi_M(\gm,\Theta^E)$, when $\gm$ is elliptic in $G$., Comment: 11 pages