{
  "id": "1512.07318",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-12-23T01:03:28.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-12-23T01:03:28.000Z",
  "title": "On the definition of almost characters",
  "authors": [
    "G. Lusztig"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math.RT"
  ],
  "abstract": "We define the almost characters of G(F_q) where G is a reductive connected group over a finite field F_q as explicit linear combinations of irreducible characters. Previously these were defined assuming that the centre of G is connected.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-12-23T01:03:28.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "definition",
      "explicit linear combinations",
      "finite field",
      "reductive connected group"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015arXiv151207318L"
    }
  }
}