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On groups with the same character degrees as almost simple groups with socle sporadic simple groups

Group Theory 2016-03-01 v2

Abstract

Let G be a finite group and cd(G) denote the set of complex irreducible character degrees of G. In this paper, we prove that if G is a finite group and H is an almost simple group whose socle is a sporadic simple group H0 such that cd(G) = cd(H), then G' = H0 and there exists an abelian subgroup A of G such that G/A is isomorphic to H. In view of Huppert's conjecture (2000), we also provide some examples to show that G is not necessarily a direct product of A and H, and hence we cannot extend this conjecture to almost simple groups.

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@article{arxiv.1601.06380,
  title  = {On groups with the same character degrees as almost simple groups with socle sporadic simple groups},
  author = {Seyed Hassan Alavi and Ashraf Daneshkhah and Ali Jafari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06380},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1511.04129

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