The blockwise Alperin weight conjecture asserts that the number of irreducible Brauer characters
in a block
equals the number of conjugacy classes of weights
assigned to
.
A
-weight
is a pair
consisting of a
-subgroup
and a defect-zero ordinary irreducible group
character of
. Here defect zero means that the largest power of
dividing
equals that dividing the group order. Weights are
assigned to blocks by Brauer block induction, and conjugacy acts simultaneously on
both parts.
This is a numerical equality rather than a specified equivariant bijection.