Rational conjugacy classes and rational characters for some finite simple groups
Group Theory
2025-03-27 v1 Representation Theory
Abstract
If is a finite group, an irreducible complex-valued character is called rational if is rational for all . Also, a conjugacy class is called rational, if for all irreducible complex-valued character , the value is rational. We prove that for , a power of prime, the group has same number of rational characters and rational conjugacy classes. Furthermore, we verify that this equality holds for all finite simple groups whose character tables appear in the , except for the Tits group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.20452,
title = {Rational conjugacy classes and rational characters for some finite simple groups},
author = {Dilpreet Kaur and Saikat Panja},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20452},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Preliminary version; 14 pages; 1 table; comments welcome