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We show that the $p$-part of the degree of an irreducible character of a symmetric group is completely determined by the set of vanishing elements of $p$-power order. As a corollary we deduce that the set of zeros of prime power order…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Eugenio Giannelli , Stacey Law , Eoghan McDowell

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

The function $\mathrm{P}_{\mathbf{v}}(G)$, measuring the proportion of the elements of a finite group $G$ that are zeros of irreducible characters of $G$, takes (as proved in [12]) only values $\frac{m-1}{m}$, for $1 \leq m \leq 6$, in the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Dongfang Yang , Yu Zeng , Silvio Dolfi

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field with $q$ elements, where $q$ is the power of an odd prime, and let $\mathrm{GSp}(2n, \mathbb{F}_q)$ and $\mathrm{GO}^{\pm}(2n, \mathbb{F}_q)$ denote the symplectic and orthogonal groups of similitudes…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-18 C. Ryan Vinroot

In representation theory of finite groups an important role is played by irreducible characters of p-defect 0, for a prime p dividing the group order. These are exactly those vanishing at the p-singular elements. In this paper we generalize…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-13 M. A. Pellegrini , A. Zalesski

Let N be a normal subgroup of a finite group G and consider the set cd(G|N) of degrees of irreducible characters of G whose kernels do not contain N. A number of theorems are proved relating the set cd(G|N) to the structure of N. For…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-25 I. M. Isaacs , Greg Knutson

The enhanced power graph, $\mathcal{E}(G)$, of a group $G$ has vertex set $G$ and two elements are adjacent if they generate a cyclic subgroup. In the case of finite groups, we identify some striking and unexpected properties of these…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Daniela Bubboloni , Francesco Fumagalli , Cheryl E. Praeger

The prime graph of a finite group $G$, which is denoted by ${\rm GK}(G)$, is a simple graph whose vertex set is comprised of the prime divisors of $|G|$ and two distinct prime divisors $p$ and $q$ are joined by an edge if and only if there…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-19 B Akbari , A. R. Moghaddamfar

We classify all finite groups $G$ which possesses an element $x\in G$ such that every irreducible character of $G$ takes a root of unity value at $x$.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Mark L. Lewis , Lucia Morotti , Hung P. Tong-Viet

Let $ H $ be a subgroup of a finite group $ G $. We say that $ H $ satisfies the partial $ \Pi $-property in $ G $ if there exists a $G$-chief series $ \varGamma_{G}: 1 =G_{0} < G_{1} < \cdot\cdot\cdot < G_{n}= G $ of $ G $ such that $ | G…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Zhengtian Qiu , Adolfo Ballester-Bolinches

For an irreducible orthogonal character $\chi $ of even degree there is a unique square class $\det({\chi })$ in the character field such that the invariant quadratic forms in any $L$-representation affording $\chi $ have determinant in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Gabriele Nebe

The Gruenberg-Kegel graph $\Gamma(G)$ associated with a finite group $G$ has as vertices the prime divisors of $|G|$, with an edge from $p$ to $q$ if and only if $G$ contains an element of order $pq$. This graph has been the subject of much…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Peter J. Cameron , Natalia V. Maslova

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $\mathrm{Irr}(G)$ denote the set of irreducible complex characters of $G$. An element $x$ of $G$ is said to be vanishing, if for some $\chi$ in $\mathrm{Irr}(G)$, we have $\chi(x)=0$. Also the element $x$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Mahdi Ebrahimi

The structure of the character degree graphs $\Delta(G)$, i.e. the prime graphs on the set $\mathrm{cd}(G)$ of the irreducible character degrees of a finite group $G$, such that $G$ is solvable and $\Delta(G)$ has diameter three, remains an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Silvio Dolfi , Roghayeh Hafezieh , Pablo Spiga

In this short note, it is proved that both the number of primitive characters and the number of quasi-primitive characters in a finite group $G$ is divisible by $|G:G'|$, where $G'$ is the derived subgroup of $G$.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Riad Youmbai , Gang Chen

A perfect code in a graph $\Gamma = (V, E)$ is a subset $C$ of $V$ such that no two vertices in $C$ are adjacent and every vertex in $V \setminus C$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. A subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Binbin Li , Jingjian Li , Wei Meng , Hao Yu

Let $B$ be a $p$-block of a finite group, and set $m=$ $\sum \chi(1)^2$, the sum taken over all height zero characters of $B$. Motivated by a result of M. Isaacs characterising $p$-nilpotent finite groups in terms of character degrees, we…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Radha Kessar , Markus Linckelmann , Gabriel Navarro

Let $\chi$ be a complex irreducible character of a finite group $G$. The conductor of $\chi$, denoted $c(\chi)$, is the smallest positive integer $n$ such that $\chi(x)\in \mathbb{Q}(\exp({2\pi i/n}))$ for all $x\in G$. We show that for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Christopher Herbig , Nguyen N. Hung

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $\text{Irr}(G)$ denote the set of the irreducible complex characters of $G$. An element $g\in G$ is called a vanishing element of $G$ if there exists $\chi\in\text{Irr}(G)$ such that $\chi(g)=0$ (i.e., $g$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Mark L. Lewis , Lucia Morotti , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus , Hung P. Tong-Viet

In this paper, we discuss about finite groups in which, CGH = NGH, for every abelian subgroup H of non prime power order. Also, we classify all such nilpotent and minimal non nilpotent groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ritesh Dwivedi