A normal version of Brauer's height zero conjecture

DOI10.1007/S00208-026-03443-3MaRDI QIDQ7232097zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander Moretó, Amanda A. Schaeffer Fry

Publication date 22 April 2026

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00208-026-03443-3

zbMATH Keywords

block theoryBrauer height zero conjectureirreducible characterprincipal blockSylow subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

Review text

The Itô-Michler theorem asserts that a prime \(p\) does not divide the degree of any irreducible character of a finite group \(G\) if and only if \(G\) has a normal and abelian Sylow \(p\)-subgroup [\textit{G. O. Michler}, Lect. Notes Math. 1178, 129--142 (1986; Zbl 0628.20013)].\N\NThe paper studies a block-theoretic analogue of the normality part of this theorem. More precisely, it considers the principal blocks \(B_q(G)\) for primes \(q\ne p\) and asks whether the condition that \(p\) does not divide \(\chi(1)\) for all \(\chi\in \mathrm{Irr}(B_q(G))\) forces a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\) to be normal.\N\NOne of the main results, Theorem A, shows that this is indeed the case: for a finite group \(G\) and a prime \(p\), a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup \(P\) is normal in \(G\) if and only if for every prime \(q\ne p\) dividing \(|G|\) and every \(\chi\in \mathrm{Irr}(B_q(G))\), the prime \(p\) does not divide \(\chi(1)\). Combined with the principal block case of Brauer's height zero conjecture, this yields a refinement of the Itô-Michler theorem characterizing normal abelian Sylow \(p\)-subgroups in terms of characters belonging to principal blocks.\N\NThe paper also proves a two-prime statement. Theorem C shows that if \(p\) and \(q\) are distinct primes and \(q\) does not divide the degree of any irreducible character in \(B_p(G)\), then a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\) normalizes a Sylow \(q\)-subgroup of \(G\), under the explicit hypothesis that \(G\) has no composition factor among five exceptional triples listed in Theorem 2.1.

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