Character correspondences in solvable groups. (Q2576979): Difference between revisions

Let \(G\) be a finite group, \(p\) a prime, \(P\in\text{Syl}_p(G)\) and \(N=N_G(P)\). The well-known McKay-Conjecture states that if \(\text{Irr}_{p'}(G)\) is the set of irreducible (complex) characters of \(p'\)-degree of \(G\), then \(|\text{Irr}_{p'}(G)|=|\text{Irr}_{p'}(N)|\). Recent generalizations of the McKay-Conjecture by Isaacs-Navarro, Navarro and the author suggest that there even is a bijection between \(\text{Irr}_{p'}(G)\) and \(\text{Irr}_{p'}(N)\) preserving many properties of the characters. In the paper under review, the author constructs the strongest of these conjectured bijections in case that \(G/\text{Core}_G(N)\) is solvable. More precisely, suppose that \(F\) is a field of characteristic zero such that, if \(|G:N|\) is even, then \(F\) contains \(Q_p\cap Q(\zeta_{2^\infty})\). Then there is a bijection \(\text{Irr}_{p'}(G)\to\text{Irr}_{p'}(N)\) that preserves \(\pm\) the degree modulo \(p\), the fields of values over \(F\), and the Schur index over every field containing \(F\). The proof uses the author's theory of Clifford classes. For odd-order groups, the reader may compare the author's result with an earlier result of \textit{I. M. Isaacs} [Theorem 10.9 in Am. J. Math. 95, 594-635 (1973; Zbl 0277.20008)], where a correspondence with similar properties was presented.