p-groups with exactly four codegrees

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2019-0073MaRDI QIDQ2208332zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sarah Croome, Mark L. Lewis

Publication date 2 November 2020

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07425

zbMATH Keywords

codegreesfinite \(p\)-groupnilpotence class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a $p$-group and let $chi$ be an irreducible character of $G$. The codegree of $chi$ is given by $|G:extker(chi)|/chi(1)$. Du and Lewis have shown that a $p$-group with exactly three codegrees has nilpotence class at most 2. Here we investigate $p$-groups with exactly four codegrees. If, in addition to having exactly four codegrees, $G$ has two irreducible character degrees, $G$ has largest irreducible character degree $p^2$, $|G:G^{\prime }|=p^2$, or $G$ has coclass at most 3, then $G$ has nilpotence class at most 4. In the case of coclass at most 3, the order of $G$ is bounded by $p^7$. With an additional hypothesis we can extend this result to $p$-groups with four codegrees and coclass at most 7. In this case the order of $G$ is bounded by $p^{11}$.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group. For \(\chi\in\mathrm{Irr}(G\)) the codegree is defined as \(\mathrm{cod}(\chi)=|G:\mathrm{Ker}(\chi)|/\chi(1)\). Write \(\mathrm{cod}(G)\) for the set of all codegrees of \(G\). It is known that a \(p\)-group with exactly two codegrees is elementary abelian, and a \(p\)-group with exactly three codegrees has nilpotence class at most 2. The paper under review makes some advances on bounding the nilpotence class of \(p\)-groups with four codegrees by proving the following result. Theorem. Suppose that \(\mathrm{cod}(G)=\{1, p, p^b, p^a\}\), where \({2\le b< a}\). If any of the following holds, then \(G\) has nilpotence class at most 4: (i) \(|\mathrm{cd}(G)|=2\); (ii) \(\mathrm{cd}(G)=\{1,p,p^2\}\); (iii) \(|G:G^{'}|=p^2\). There are some more results under more special hypotheses.

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