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Retrieving information about a group from its character degrees or its class sizes

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We prove that a knowledge of the character degrees of a finite group G and of their multiplicities determines whether G has a Sylow p-subgroup as a direct factor. An analogous result based on a knowledge of the conjugacy class sizes was known. We prove variations of both results and discuss their similarities.

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@article{arxiv.math/0510306,
  title  = {Retrieving information about a group from its character degrees or its class sizes},
  author = {Sandro Mattarei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0510306},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, to be published in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc