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Let $G$ be a finite group and $Irr(G)$ the set of irreducible complex characters of $G$. Let $e_p(G)$ be the largest integer such that $p^{e_p(G)}$ divides $\chi(1)$ for some $\chi \in Irr(G)$. We show that $|G:\mathbf{F}(G)|_p \leq p^{k…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-27 Yong Yang , Guohua Qian

Let $G$ be a finite solvable group with disconnected character degree graph $\Delta(G)$. Under these conditions, it follows from a result of P\'alfy that $\Delta(G)$ consists of two connected components. Another result of P\'alfy's gives an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Mark L. Lewis , Andrew Summers

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let cs$(G)$ be the set of conjugacy class sizes of $G$. Recalling that an element $g$ of $G$ is called a \emph{vanishing element} if there exists an irreducible character of $G$ taking the value $0$ on $g$, we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Mariagrazia Bianchi , Rachel D. Camina , Mark L. Lewis , Emanuele Pacifici

Let $G$ be a finite group. An element $g$ of $G$ is called a vanishing element if there exists an irreducible character $\chi$ of $G$ such that $\chi(g) = 0$; in this case, we say that the conjugacy class of $g$ is a vanishing conjugacy…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Mariagrazia Bianchi , Julian M. A. Brough , Rachel D. Camina , Emanuele Pacifici

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

Let $G$ be a finite group, and $\alpha$ a nontrivial character of $G$. The McKay graph $\mathcal{M}(G,\alpha)$ has the irreducible characters of $G$ as vertices, with an edge from $\chi_1$ to $\chi_2$ if $\chi_2$ is a constituent of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-22 M. W. Liebeck , A. Shalev , Pham Huu Tiep

For a finite group $G$, let $\Delta(G)$ denote the character graph built on the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of $G$. Akhlaghi and Tong-Viet in \cite{[AT]} conjectured that if for some positive integer $n$,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Mahdi Ebrahimi

We develop the concept of character level for the complex irreducible characters of finite, general or special, linear and unitary groups. We give characterizations of the level of a character in terms of its Lusztig's label and in terms of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Robert M. Guralnick , Michael Larsen , Pham Huu Tiep

The classification of irreducible, spherical characters of the infinite-dimensional unitary/orthogonal/symplectic groups can be obtained by finding all possible limits of normalized, irreducible characters of the corresponding…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Cesar Cuenca , Vadim Gorin

Motivated by the Problem $164$ proposed by Y. Berkovich and E. Zhmud' in their book "Characters of finite groups, Part $1$", we give a characterization of finite groups whose irreducible character codegrees are prime powers. This is based…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Huan Xiong

Let $G$ be a finite soluble group and $h(G)$ its Fitting length. The aim of this paper is to give certain upper bounds for $h(G)$ as functions of the Fitting length of at least three Hall subgroups of $G$ which factorize $G$ in a particular…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Giorgio Busetto , Enrico Jabara

Let J be a finite-dimensional nilpotent algebra over a finite field F_q. We formulate a procedure for analysing characters of the group 1+J. In particular, we study characters of the group $U_n (q)$ of unipotent triangular $n\times n$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-28 Anton Evseev

We are interested in determining the bound of the average of the degrees of the irreducible characters whose degrees are not divisible by some prime $p$ that guarantees a finite group $G$ of odd order is $p$-nilpotent. We find a bound that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Ramadan Elsharif , Mark L. Lewis

We study the irreducibility of 6-dimensional strictly compatible systems of Q with distinct Hodge-Tate weights. We prove that if one of the representations $\rho$ in such a system is irreducible and satisfies a self-dual condition…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Boyi Dai

Let $p$ be a prime such that $p \geq 5$. Let $G$ be a finite $p$-solvable group and let $p^a$ be the largest power of $p$ dividing $\chi(1)$ for an irreducible character $\chi$ of $G$, we show that $|G:F(G)|_p \leq p^{5.5a}$. Let $G$ be a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Yong Yang

Let $q$ be a prime power and $U$ the group of lower unitriangular matrices of order $n$ for some natural number $n$. We give a lower bound for the degrees of irreducible constituents of Andr\'{e}-Yan supercharacters and classify the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Richard Dipper , Qiong Guo

Let \(G\) be a finite solvable group, and let \(\Delta(G)\) denote the \emph{prime graph} built on the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of \(G\). A fundamental result by P.P. P\'alfy asserts that the complement…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Zeinab Akhlaghi , Carlo Casolo , Silvio Dolfi , Khatoon Khedri , Emanuele Pacifici

Goldmann and Russell (2002) initiated the study of the complexity of the equation satisfiability problem in finite groups by showing that it is in P for nilpotent groups while it is NP-complete for non-solvable groups. Since then, several…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Armin Weiß

We classify the quasi-finite irreducible highest weight modules over the infinite rank Lie superalgebras $\hgltwo$, $\hC$ and $\hD$, and determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for quasi-finite irreducible highest weight modules…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Lam , R. B. Zhang

For a finite non-abelian group $G$ let $\rat(G)$ denote the largest ratio of degrees of two nonlinear irreducible characters of $G$. We prove that the number of non-abelian composition factors of $G$ is bounded above by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Mark L. Lewis , Hung Ngoc Nguyen