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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

In 2021, Navarro and Tiep proposed a conjecture on character fields of finite quasi-simple groups. We develop some theory on sums of roots of unity and use this theory to prove the conjecture for some infinite families of finite…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Marco Albert

A new family of local-global conjectures in the representation theory of finite groups has recently been proposed by Moret\'o. We show that one of the strongest of these conjectures, the strong subnormalizer conjecture, holds for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Gabriel A. L. Souza

We prove the Milnor conjecture for Lie groups and the Friedlander conjecture for complex algebraic Lie groups.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Ilias Amrani

In this paper, we prove that a refinement of the Alperin-McKay Conjecture for $p$-blocks of finite groups, formulated by I. M. Isaacs and G. Navarro in 2002, holds for all covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups, whenever…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Jean-Baptiste Gramain

We prove the McKay conjecture on characters of odd degree. A major step in the proof is the verification of the inductive McKay condition for groups of Lie type and primes $\ell$ such that a Sylow $\ell$-subgroup or its maximal normal…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Gunter Malle , Britta Späth

A proof of Thompson's conjecture for real semi-simple Lie groups has been given by Kapovich, Millson, and Leeb. In this note, we give another proof of the conjecture by using a theorem of Alekseev, Meinrenken, and Woodward from symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jiang-Hua Lu , Sam Evens

The so-called inductive McKay condition on finite simple groups, due to Isaacs-Malle-Navarro (2007), has been recently reformulated by Sp\"ath. We show that this reformulation applies to the reduction theorem for Alperin's weight…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Marc Cabanes

We introduce a new conjecture on products of two distinct primes that would provide a partial answer to a conjecture of McIntosh. Also, $\binom{2p-1}{p-1}-1$ is written in terms of a polynomial in prime $p$ over the integers and we discuss…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Saud Hussein

The Alperin-McKay conjecture is a longstanding open conjecture in the representation theory of finite groups. Sp\"ath showed that the Alperin-McKay conjecture holds if the so-called inductive Alperin-McKay (iAM) condition holds for all…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Lucas Ruhstorfer

Let $P$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup of a finite $p$-solvable group $G$, where $p$ is a prime. Using a normal $p$-series $\mathcal{N}$ of $G$, we introduce the notion of $(\mathcal{N},p)$-stable characters and prove that $G$ and ${\bf N}_G(P)$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Huimin Chang , Ping Jin

In this note we provide some counterexamples for the conjecture of Moret\'{o} on finite simple groups, which says that any finite simple group $G$ can determined in terms of its order $|G|$ and the number of elements of order $p$, where $p$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Jinbao Li , Wujie Shi

The McKay--Navarro conjecture is a refinement of the McKay conjecture that additionally takes the action of some Galois automorphisms into account. We verify the inductive McKay--Navarro condition in the defining characteristic for the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Birte Johansson

In this paper we consider the inductive Alperin-McKay condition for quasi-isolated 2-blocks of exceptional groups of Lie type. Thereby, we complete the proof of the Alperin-McKay conjecture for the prime 2.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Lucas Ruhstorfer

We verify the inductive McKay condition for simple groups of Lie type C, namely finite projective symplectic groups. This contributes to the program of a complete proof of the McKay conjecture for all finite groups via the reduction theorem…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Marc Cabanes , Britta Späth

We refine the reduction theorem of the McKay Conjecture proved by Isaacs, Malle and Navarro. Assuming the inductive McKay condition, we obtain a strong version of the McKay Conjecture that gives central isomorphic character triples.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Damiano Rossi

A conjectural generalization of the McKay correspondence in terms of stringy invariants to arbitrary characteristic, including the wild case, was recently formulated by the author in the case where the given finite group linearly acts on an…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Takehiko Yasuda

We propose a general conjecture on decompositions of finite simple groups as products of conjugates of an arbitrary subset. We prove this conjecture for bounded subsets of arbitrary finite simple groups, and for large subsets of groups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Martin Liebeck , Nikolay Nikolov , Aner Shalev

Recently Navarro proposed a strengthening of the unsolved McKay conjecture using Galois automorphisms. We prove that the Navarro conjecture holds for the alternating groups when the prime p is odd.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Olivier Brunat , Rishi Nath

Let $G$ be an arbitrary finite group. The McKay conjecture asserts that $G$ and the normaliser $N_G (P)$ of a Sylow $p$-subgroup $P$ in $G$ have the same number of characters of degree not divisible by $p$ (that is, of $p'$-degree). We…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Anton Evseev