English

Characters and Sylow $3$-subgroup abelianization

Group Theory 2024-07-16 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We characterize when a finite group G possesses a Sylow 3-subgroup P with abelianization of order 9 in terms of the number of height zero characters lying in the principal 3-block of G, settling a conjecture put forward by Navarro, Sambale, and Tiep in 2018. Along the way, we show that a recent result by Laradji on the number of character of height zero in a block that lie above a given character of some normal subgroup holds, without any hypothesis on the group for blocks of maximal defect.

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@article{arxiv.2405.16665,
  title  = {Characters and Sylow $3$-subgroup abelianization},
  author = {Eugenio Giannelli and Noelia Rizo and A. A. Schaeffer Fry and Carolina Vallejo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.16665},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

slight title change and other minor changes, following helpful comments thanks to Gunter Malle and Bejamin Sambale

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