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Principal blocks with 5 irreducible characters

Group Theory 2021-05-07 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We show that if the principal p-block of a finite group G contains exactly 5 irreducible ordinary characters, then a Sylow p-subgroup of G has order 5, 7 or is isomorphic to one of the non-abelian 2-groups of order 8.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15422,
  title  = {Principal blocks with 5 irreducible characters},
  author = {Noelia Rizo and Amanda Schaeffer Fry and Carolina Vallejo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15422},
  year   = {2021}
}

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19 pages

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