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In this short note we show that every connected reductive simply-connected algebraic group of rank $>1$ over the complex numbers has infinitely many pairs of irreducible representations which are not related by an automorphism of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Frank Lübeck

Building on work of Saxl, we classify the multiplicity-free permutation characters of all symmetric groups of degree 66 or more. A corollary is a complete list of the irreducible characters of symmetric groups (again of degree 66 or more)…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-18 Mark Wildon

A finite group $G$ is $normally ~monomial$ if all its irreducible characters are induced from linear characters of normal subgroups of $G$. In this paper, we determine all possible irreducible character degree sets of normally monomial…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Dongfang Yang , Heng Lv

A character of a group is said to be super-monomial if every primitive character inducing it is linear. It is conjectured by Isaacs that every irreducible character of an odd $M$-group is super-monomial. We show that all non linear…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Joakim Færgeman

We classify the irreducible complex characters of the symplectic groups $Sp_{2n}(q)$ and the orthogonal groups $Spin_{2n}^\pm(q)$, $Spin_{2n+1}(q)$ of degrees up to the bound D, where $D=(q^n-1)q^{4n-10}/2$ for symplectic groups,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-27 Hung Ngoc Nguyen

Let $n$ be a non-negative integer. Combining algebraic and combinatorial techniques, we investigate for which pairs $(G,\rho)$ of a subgroup $G$ of the symmetric group $S_n$ and an irreducible character $\rho$ of $G$ the induced character…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Pavel Turek

Given a finite group G, let cd(G) denote the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of G. The character degree graph of G is defined as the simple undirected graph whose vertices are the prime divisors of the numbers in cd(G),…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Zeinab Akhlaghi , Carlo Casolo , Silvio Dolfi , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus

We classify the finite groups with the property that any two different character codegrees are coprime. In general, we conjecture that if $k$ is a positive integer such that for any prime $p$ the number of character codegrees of a finite…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Alexander Moretó

Let G be a finite group of order n and V an irreducible representation over the complex numbers of dimension d. For some nonnegative number e, we have n=d(d+e). If e is small, then the character of V has unusually large degree. We fix e and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-08-28 Noah Snyder

A relation between certain irreducible character values of the hyperoctahedral group $B_n$ ($\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z} \wr S_n$) and the symmetric group $S_{2n}$ was proved by F. L\"ubeck and D. Prasad in 2021. Their proof is algebraic in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Rijubrata Kundu , Papi Ray

By exploiting relationships between the values taken by ordinary characters of symmetric groups we prove two theorems in the modular representation theory of the symmetric group. 1. The decomposition matrices of symmetric groups in odd…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Wildon

In 1961, Solomon gave upper and lower bounds for the sum of all the entries in the character table of a finite group in terms of elementary properties of the group. In a different direction, we consider the ratio of the character table sum…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Arvind Ayyer , Hiranya Kishore Dey , Digjoy Paul

In this work, we establish a relationship between the sum of irreducible character degrees and the number of twisted involutions associated with the automorphisms of a finite group. We develop algorithmic frameworks for evaluating these…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Venkata Subbaiah Yerrapati , Rahul Dixit , Ajay Kumar Shukla

Let $p$ be an odd prime. We show that for sufficiently large $n$, every $2$-block of $\mathfrak{S}_n$ and $\mathfrak{A}_n$ contains an ordinary irreducible character of degree divisible by $p$. For almost all $2$-blocks of $\mathfrak{A}_n$,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Bim Gustavsson

Let N be a minimal normal nonabelian subgroup of a finite group G. We will show that there exists a nontrivial irreducible character of N of degree at least 5 which is extendible to G. This result will be used to settle two open questions…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-16 Kay Magaard , Hung P. Tong-Viet

In math.CO/0109093 the author obtained a formula for the value of an irreducible symmetric group character indexed by a partition of rectangular shape. In the present paper this formula is (conjecturally) generalized to arbitrary shapes.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard P. Stanley

In previous work Regev used part of the representation theory of Lie superalgebras to compute the values of a character of the symmetric group whose decomposition into irreducible constituents is described by semistandard…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Jay Taylor

Let $G$ be a finite group and $p$ a prime. We establish an upper bound for the derived length of a Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$ in terms of the number of irreducible characters of $G$ whose degrees are divisible by $p$. We also prove that if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-27 James P. Cossey , Mark L. Lewis , A. A. Schaeffer Fry , Hung P. Tong-Viet

Polynomials with values in an irreducible module of the symmetric group can be given the structure of a module for the rational Cherednik algebra, called a standard module. This algebra has one free parameter and is generated by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Charles F. Dunkl

The covering number of a non-linear character $\chi$ of a finite group $G$ is the least positive integer $k$ such that every irreducible character of $G$ occurs in $\chi^k$. We determine the covering numbers of irreducible characters of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Rijubrata Kundu , Velmurugan S