Restricting unipotent characters in special orthogonal groups

Abstract

For all prime powers $q$ we restrict the unipotent characters of the special orthogonal groups $\text{SO}_{5}(q)$ and $\text{SO}_{7}(q)$ to a maximal parabolic subgroup. We determine all irreducible constituents of these restrictions for $\text{SO}_{5}(q)$ and a large part of the irreducible constituents for $\text{SO}_{7}(q)$.