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A complex irreducible character of a finite group G is said to be p-constant, for some prime p dividing the order of G, if it takes constant value at the set of p-singular elements of G. In this paper we classify irreducible p-constant…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Marco Antonio Pellegrini

Two finite groups are said to have the same order type if for each positive integer $n$ both groups have the same number of elements of order $n$. In 1987 John G. Thompson asked if in this case the solvability of one group implies the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Peter Müller

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

If $G$ is a finite classical group, linear or unitary in any characteristic, and orthogonal in odd characteristic, we give an approximate formula for $\chi(g)$ in which the error term is much smaller than the estimate, when $g\in G$ is an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Michael Larsen , Pham Huu Tiep

Given a finite group $G$, the character graph, denoted by $\Delta(G)$, for its irreducible character degrees is a graph with vertex set $\rho(G)$ which is the set of prime numbers that divide the irreducible character degrees of $G$, and…

We call a group $G$ {\it algorithmically finite} if no algorithm can produce an infinite set of pairwise distinct elements of $G$. We construct examples of recursively presented infinite algorithmically finite groups and study their…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-09 A. Myasnikov , D. Osin

It has been proved recently by Moreto and Craven that the order of a finite group is bounded in terms of the largest multiplicity of its irreducible character degrees. A conjugacy class version of this result was proved for solvable groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Hung Ngoc Nguyen

In this paper, we prove that all finite solvable groups satisfy the Isaacs-Seitz conjecture namely the derived lenght of a finite solvable group G is less than or equal to the number of distinct irreducible complex character degrees of G.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Burcu Çınarcı , Temha Erkoç

Let $F(G)$ and $b(G)$ respectively denote the Fitting subgroup and the largest degree of an irreducible complex character of a finite group $G$. A well-known conjecture of D. Gluck claims that if $G$ is solvable then $|G:F(G)|\leq…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-24 James P. Cossey , Zoltán Halasi , Attila Maróti , Hung Ngoc Nguyen

For every finite quasisimple group of Lie type $G$, every irreducible character $\chi$ of $G$, and every element $g$ of $G$, we give an exponential upper bound for the character ratio $|\chi(g)|/\chi(1)$ with exponent linear in $\log_{|G|}…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Michael Larsen , Pham Huu Tiep

The proof of the inductive McKay condition has been shown to imply that the character theory above the characters of degree not divisible by $p$ of a normal subgroup is locally determined. In this note, we establish a similar result for the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Asier Arranz

We obtain the codegree of a certain primitive character for a finite solvable group, and thereby give a negative answer to a question proposed by Moret\'o in \cite{Moreto}.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Ping Jin , Lei Wang , Yong Yang

Much can be learned about a finite group from its character table, but sometimes that table can be difficult to compute. Supercharacter theories are generalizations of character theory defined by P. Diaconis and I.M. Isaacs, in which…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-22 Anders O. F. Hendrickson

We prove that if $p$ is an odd prime, $G$ is a solvable group, and the average value of the irreducible characters of $G$ whose degrees are not divisible by $p$ is strictly less than $2(p+1)/(p+3)$, then $G$ is $p$-nilpotent. We show that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-02 Mark L. Lewis

The aim of this paper is to classify the finite nonsolvable groups in which every irreducible character of even degree vanishes on at most two conjugacy classes. As a corollary, it is shown that $L_2(2^f)$ are the only nonsolvable groups in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guohua Qian , Wujie Shi

We prove that an element $g$ of prime order $>3$ belongs to the solvable radical $R(G)$ of a finite (or, more generally, a linear) group if and only if for every $x\in G$ the subgroup generated by $g, xgx^{-1}$ is solvable. This theorem…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Nikolai Gordeev , Fritz Grunewald , Boris Kunyavskii , Eugene Plotkin

In this paper, we will show that if for every nonlinear complex irreducible character of a finite group G, some multiple of it is induced from an irreducible character of some proper subgroup of G, then G is solvable. This is a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-09 Tung Le , Jamshid Moori , Hung P. Tong-Viet

Let $G$ be a finite group and let $\pi$ be a set of primes. Write $\mathrm{Irr}_{\pi'}(G)$ for the set of irreducible characters of degree not divisible by any prime in $\pi$. We show that if $\pi$ contains at most two prime numbers and the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Eugenio Giannelli , Mandi Schaeffer Fry , Carolina Vallejo

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

We prove that for any prime $\ell$, any finite group has as many irreducible complex characters of degree prime to $\ell$ as the normalizers of its Sylow $\ell$-subgroups. This equality was conjectured by John McKay. The conjecture was…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Marc Cabanes , Britta Späth