Character table sudokus

DOI10.1007/S00013-023-01859-WMaRDI QIDQ6110317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Sambale

Publication date 5 July 2023

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09840

zbMATH Keywords

character tablelarge degreesudoku

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15)

Abstract: It is a fun game to complete a partial character table of a finite group. We show that one can reconstruct a missing row or column from a given table. The proof relies on deep properties of fully ramified characters. Moreover, we extend a classification of groups with a "large" character degree started by Snyder and continued by Durfee and Jensen.

Review text

It is proved that there are no finite groups whose character tables differ by only one row or only one column. The second part of the statement is elementary. The ``row theorem is more involved and relies on arguments in [\textit{S. M. Gagola}, Pacific J. Math. 109, 363--385 (1983; Zbl 0536.20005)], among other results. As the author points out, the difficulties in the proof of this result come from groups with a ``large character degree, in the sense of work of \textit{N. Snyder} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 136, No. 6, 1893--1903 (2008; Zbl 1145.20005)], \textit{C. Durfee} and \textit{S. Jensen} [J. Algebra 338, No. 1, 197--206 (2011; Zbl 1236.20005)], \textit{I. M. Isaacs} [J. Algebra 348, No. 1, 264--275 (2011; Zbl 1242.20011)] and \textit{H. N. Nguyen} et al. [Manuscr. Math. 149, No. 3--4, 523--546 (2016; Zbl 1344.20012)], among others. In the second part of the paper, the author determines the groups of order \(d(d+e)\) where \(2\leq e\leq 11\) and \(G\) has an irreducible character of degree \(d\). As could be expected, this relies on computations in GAP.

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• Finite groups with two rows which differ in only one entry in character tables
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