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Gcharacter tables of a finite group G were defined before. These tables can be very useful to obtain certain structural information of a normal subgroup from the character table of G. We analyze certain structural properties of normal…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Zeinab Akhlaghi , Maria Jose Felipe , Kelly Jean-Philippe

In this paper we show that a finite nonabelian characteristically simple group G satisfying n = |\pi(G)|+2 if and only if G is isomorphic to A5, where n is the number of isomorphism classes of derived subgroups of G and \pi(G) is the set of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Leyli Jafari Taghvasani , Soran Marzang

Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group and $\chi,\psi$ be irreducible characters of $G$. We study the character $\chi\psi$ when $\chi\psi$ has at most $p-1$ distinct irreducible constituents.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Edith Adan-Bante

Let G be a finite solvable group and $\chi\in \Irr(G)$ be a faithful character. We show that the derived length of G is bounded by a linear function of the number of distinct irreducible constituents of $\chi\bar{\chi}$. We also discuss…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Edith Adan-Bante

We study rationality properties of irreducible characters of finite groups. We show that the continuity of $2$-rationality is a phenomenon that can be detected in the principal $2$-block, thus refining a recent result of N. N. Hung. We also…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Gunter Malle , J. Miquel Martínez , Carolina Vallejo

For any irreducible character $\chi$ of a finite group $G$, let $\theta(\chi)$ denote the proportion of elements $g\in G$ for which $\chi(g)$ is either zero or a root of unity. Then for any $L\in[1/2,1]$ and any $\epsilon>0$, there exists…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Alexander R. Miller

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 $G$ be a finite group and $p\in \pi(G)$, and let Irr$(G)$ be the set of all irreducible complex characters of $G$. Let $\chi \in {\rm Irr}(G)$, we write ${\rm cod}(\chi)=|G:{\rm ker} \chi|/\chi(1)$, and called it the codegree of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Jiakuan Lu , Yu Li , Boru Zhang

Let $G$ be a finite group and $cd(G)$ denote the set of complex irreducible character degrees of $G$. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a finite group and $H$ is an almost simple group whose socle is Mathieu group such that $cd(G)…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Seyed Hassan Alavi , Ashraf Daneshkhah , Ali Jafari

In this article we prove the following result: that for any two natural numbers k and j, and for all sufficiently large symmetric groups Sym(n), there are k disjoint sets of j irreducible characters of Sym(n), such that each set consists of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 David A. Craven

By a result of Noritzsch, a finite solvable group whose non-linear character degrees have the same set of prime divisors is meta-abelian. In this note we investigate finite non-solvable groups whose non-linear character degrees have the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Junying Guo , Yanjun Liu , Ziyi Wu , Di Xiao

Let $N$ be a normal subgroup of a finite group $G$. In this paper, we consider the elements $g$ of $N$ such that $\chi(g)\neq 0$ for all irreducible characters $\chi$ of $G$. Such an element is said to be non-vanishing in $G$. Let $p$ be a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-30 M. J. Felipe , N. Grittini , V. Sotomayor

We classify finite non-solvable groups with a faithful primitive irreducible complex character that vanishes on a unique conjugacy class. Our results answer a question of Dixon and Rahnamai Barghi and suggest an extension of Burnside's…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Sesuai Y. Madanha

In this paper, we answer affirmatively a question of H S Sim on representations in characteristic $0$, for a class of metabelian groups. Moreover, we provide examples to point out that the analogous answer is no longer valid if the solvable…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Soham Swadhin Pradhan , B. Sury

We provide an example of a finite group with a conjugacy class of average size on which fewer than half of the irreducible characters are either zero or a root of unity.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Alexander R. Miller

Let G be a finite group and cd(G) denote the set of complex irreducible character degrees of G. In this paper, we prove that if G is a finite group and H is an almost simple group whose socle is a sporadic simple group H0 such that cd(G) =…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Seyed Hassan Alavi , Ashraf Daneshkhah , Ali Jafari

Let $G$ be a finite group and ${\rm cd}(G)$ will be the set of the degrees of the complex irreducible characters of $G$. Also let ${\rm cod}(G)$ be the set of codegrees of the irreducible characters of $G$. The Taketa problem conjectures if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Mahtab Delfani , Mohsen Ghasemi , Somayeh Hekmatara

A recent question of Gabriel Navarro asks whether it is true that the derived length of a defect group is less than or equal to the number of degrees of irreducible characters in a block. In this article, we bring new evidence towards the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Eugenio Giannelli , J. Miquel Martínez , A. A. Schaeffer Fry

We introduce the notion of the depth of a finite group $G$, defined as the minimal length of an unrefinable chain of subgroups from $G$ to the trivial subgroup. In this paper we investigate the depth of (non-abelian) finite simple groups.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Timothy C. Burness , Martin W. Liebeck , Aner Shalev

We obtain nontrivial bounds for character sums with multiplicative and additive characters over finite fields over elements with restricted coordinate expansion. In particular, we obtain a nontrivial estimate for such a sum over a finite…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Siddharth Iyer , Igor Shparlinski