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$p$-vanishing conjugacy classes of symmetric groups

Combinatorics 2017-06-27 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

For a prime pp, we say that a conjugacy class of a finite group GG is pp-vanishing if every irreducible character of GG of degree divisible by pp takes value 0 on that conjugacy class. In this paper we completely classify 2-vanishing and 3-vanishing conjugacy classes for the symmetric group and do some work in the classification of pp-vanishing conjugacy classes of the symmetric group for p5p\geq 5. This answers a question by Navarro for p=2p=2 and p=3p=3 and partly answers it for p5p\geq 5.

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@article{arxiv.1409.8108,
  title  = {$p$-vanishing conjugacy classes of symmetric groups},
  author = {Lucia Morotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.8108},
  year   = {2017}
}