Everett C. Dade

Everett C. Dade
Alma mater	Harvard University, Princeton University
Known for	Dade isometry, Dade conjecture
Spouse	Catherine Doléans-Dade
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Thesis	Multiplicity and Monoidal Transformations  (1960)
Doctoral advisor	O. Timothy O'Meara

Everett Clarence Dade is a mathematician at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign working on finite groups and representation theory, who introduced the Dade isometry and Dade's conjecture. While an undergraduate at Harvard University, he became a Putnam Fellow twice, in 1955 and 1957.

Work

The Dade isometry is an isometry from class functions on a subgroup H with support on a subset K of H to class functions on a group G (Collins 1990, 6.1). It was introduced by Dade (1964) as a generalization and simplification of an isometry used by Feit & Thompson (1963) in their proof of the odd order theorem, and was used by Peterfalvi (2000) in his revision of the character theory of the odd order theorem.

Dade's conjecture is a conjecture relating the numbers of characters of blocks of a finite group to the numbers of characters of blocks of local subgroups.

References

Sources

• Collins, Michael J. (22 March 1990), Representations and Characters of Finite Groups, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-23440-5
• Dade, Everett C. (1964), "Lifting group characters", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, 79 (3): 590–596, doi:10.2307/1970409, ISSN 0003-486X, JSTOR 1970409, MR 0160813
• Feit, Walter (1967), Characters of finite groups, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York-Amsterdam, ISBN 9780805324341, MR 0219636
• Feit, Walter; Thompson, John G. (1963), "Solvability of groups of odd order", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 13: 775–1029, doi:10.2140/pjm.1963.13.775, ISSN 0030-8730, MR 0166261
• Peterfalvi, Thomas (2000), Character theory for the odd order theorem, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 272, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511565861, ISBN 978-0-521-64660-4, MR 1747393

Citations

External links

• Everett C. Dade
• Everett C. Dade at the Mathematics Genealogy Project