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$p$-groups with exactly four codegrees

Group Theory 2019-01-23 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a pp-group and let χ\chi be an irreducible character of GG. The codegree of χ\chi is given by G:ker(χ)/χ(1)|G:\text{ker}(\chi)|/\chi(1). Du and Lewis have shown that a pp-group with exactly three codegrees has nilpotence class at most 2. Here we investigate pp-groups with exactly four codegrees. If, in addition to having exactly four codegrees, GG has two irreducible character degrees, GG has largest irreducible character degree p2p^2, G:G=p2|G:G'|=p^2, or GG has coclass at most 3, then GG has nilpotence class at most 4. In the case of coclass at most 3, the order of GG is bounded by p7p^7. With an additional hypothesis we can extend this result to pp-groups with four codegrees and coclass at most 7. In this case the order of GG is bounded by p11p^{11}.

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@article{arxiv.1901.07425,
  title  = {$p$-groups with exactly four codegrees},
  author = {Sarah Croome and Mark L. Lewis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.07425},
  year   = {2019}
}
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