Character stabilizer limits relative to a normal nilpotent subgroup (Q1081684)

Let G be a finite group. A stabilizer limit of an irreducible character \(\chi\) of G arises in the following way: if \(M\trianglelefteq G\) is a normal subgroup and \(\theta\) is an irreducible constituent of the restriction \(\chi_ M\) let \(I=I(\theta)\) be the inertia group of \(\theta\). Then by Clifford's theory there is a unique irreducible character \(\eta\) of I such that \(\chi\) is induced by \(\eta\) and \(\eta_ M\) contains \(\theta\) as a constituent. \(\eta\) is called the Clifford correspondent of \(\chi\) with respect to \(\theta\). One can repeat this process and consider Clifford correspondences in I for \(\eta\). Characters arising in this way are called compound Clifford correspondences of \(\chi\). Compound Clifford correspondences \(\psi\) of \(\chi\) which themselves have no proper Clifford correspondents are called stabilizer limits of \(\chi\). For fixed \(N\trianglelefteq G\) one can consider Clifford correspondents and compound Clifford correspondents for \(\chi\) with the additional restriction that at every stage of the iterated process when the normal subgroup M is chosen it satisfies \(M\leq N\). In this way one obtains the concept of N-stabilizer limit of \(\chi\). In his paper Dade studies stabilizer limits - in a slightly more general context. He shows by examples that different N-stabilizer limits of a given \(\chi\) differ in many ways, for instance they may have different degrees. But surprisingly, if N is nilpotent, Dade observes that N- stabilizer limits for \(\chi\) do have many common properties, e.g. they have the same degrees. Isaac's paper contains an elegant and simplified proof for a somewhat weakened and less general form of Dade's main result.