Controlled blocks of the finite quasisimple groups for odd primes

Abstract

We classify controlled blocks, introduced by Alperin and Broué in 1979 for all quasisimple groups G for odd primes. The results imply that every nilpotent block of G has abelian defect groups, which in turn is one of the main results proved in An and Eaton (2011) [6]. We also give an explicit characterization of non-controlled blocks of all quasisimple groups G for odd primes. This implies the block theoretic analogue of Glaubermanʼs ZJ-theorem for G proved by Kessar, Linckelmann and Robinson (2002) [18].