Let p be a prime number. We consider diagonal p-permutation functors over a (commutative, unital) ring $\mathsf {R}$
in which all prime numbers different from p are invertible. We first determine the finite groups G for which the associated essential algebra $\mathcal {E}_{\mathsf {R}}(G)$
is non-zero: These are groups of the form $G=L\langle u\rangle $
, where $(L,u)$
is a $D^\Delta $
-pair. When $\mathsf {R}$
is an algebraically closed field $\mathbb {F}$
of characteristic 0 or p, this yields a parameterization of the simple diagonal p-permutation functors over $\mathbb {F}$
by triples $(L,u,W)$
, where $(L,u)$
is a $D^\Delta $
-pair, and W is a simple $\mathbb {F}\mathrm {Out}(L,u)$
-module. Finally, we describe the evaluations of the simple functor $\mathsf {S}_{L,u,W}$
parameterized by the triple $(L,u,W)$
. We show in particular that if G is a finite group and $\mathbb {F}$
has characteristic p, the dimension of $\mathsf {S}_{L,1,\mathbb {F}}(G)$
is equal to the number of conjugacy classes of p-regular elements of G with a defect group isomorphic to L.