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Symmetric groups are determined by their character degrees.
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    Symmetric groups are determined by their character degrees. (English)
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    19 December 2011
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    In this short paper the author proves the unsurprising result stated in the title: that if \(G\) is a finite group and the degrees of the irreducible characters of \(G\) (with multiplicities) are the same as those of the symmetric group \(\mathfrak S_n\), then \(G\cong\mathfrak S_n\). It is not clear why this result might be interesting, and the author's rather laboured introduction sheds no light on this. The proof is well presented, but involves a great deal of imported material, including the classification of finite simple groups, and small character degrees of the sporadic groups. It would be good to see a more elementary argument.
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    character degrees
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    symmetric groups
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    character tables
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