Hecke algebras for the basic characters of the unitriangular group

Let denote the unitriangular group of degree over the finite field with elements. In a previous paper we obtained a decomposition of the regular character of as an orthogonal sum of basic characters. In this paper, we study the irreducible constituents of an arbitrary basic character of . We prove that is induced from a linear character of an algebra subgroup of , and we use the Hecke algebra associated with this linear character to describe the irreducible constituents of as characters induced from an algebra subgroup of . Finally, we identify a special irreducible constituent of , which is also induced from a linear character of an algebra subgroup. In particular, we extend a previous result (proved under the assumption where is the characteristic of the field) that gives a necessary and sufficient condition for to have a unique irreducible constituent.