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On the orders of vanishing elements of finite groups

Group Theory 2021-06-30 v1

Abstract

Let G G be a finite group and pp be a prime. Let Vo(G) \mathrm{Vo}(G) denote the set of the orders of vanishing elements, Vop(G)\mathrm{Vo}_{p} (G) be the subset of Vo(G) \mathrm{Vo}(G) consisting of those orders of vanishing elements divisible by pp and Vop(G)\mathrm{Vo}_{p'} (G) be the subset of Vo(G) \mathrm{Vo}(G) consisting of those orders of vanishing elements not divisible by pp. Dolfi, Pacifi, Sanus and Spiga proved that if a a is not a p p -power for all aVo(G) a\in \mathrm{Vo}(G), then G G has a normal Sylow p p -subgroup. In another article, the same authors also show that if if Vop(G)= \mathrm{Vo}_{p'}(G) =\emptyset , then G G has a normal nilpotent p p -complement. These results are variations of the well known Ito-Michler and Thompson theorems. In this article we study solvable groups such that Vop(G)=1|\mathrm{Vo}_{p}(G)| = 1 and show that P P' is subnormal. This is analogous to the work of Isaacs, Mor\'eto, Navarro and Tiep where they considered groups with just one character degree divisible by p p . We also study certain finite groups GG such that Vop(G)=1|\mathrm{Vo}_{p'}(G)| = 1 and we prove that G G has a normal subgroup L L such that G/L G/L a normal p p -complement and L L has a normal p p -complement. This is analogous to the recent work of Giannelli, Rizo and Schaeffer Fry on character degrees with a few pp'-character degrees. Bubboloni, Dolfi and Spiga studied finite groups such that every vanishing element is of order pm p^{m} for some integer m1 m\geqslant 1 . As a generalization, we investigate groups such that gcd(a,b)=pm \gcd(a,b)=p^{m} for some integer m0 m \geqslant 0 , for all a,bVo(G) a,b\in \mathrm{Vo}(G) . We also study finite solvable groups whose irreducible characters vanish only on elements of prime power order.

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@article{arxiv.2011.12366,
  title  = {On the orders of vanishing elements of finite groups},
  author = {Sesuai Y. Madanha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12366},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.11660