Itô's theorem and character degrees revisited (Q1099245)

Let G be a finite group. N. Itô has shown that the degree of an irreducible complex character of G divides the index of any normal abelian subgroup. The proof of this result uses some elementary Clifford theory. The authors as an application of some elementary integral representation theory obtain a new proof of Itô's theorem, and its generalization due to Curtis-Fossum-Keller [see, for example, \textit{C. W. Curtis}, \textit{T. V. Fossum}, Math. Z. 107, 402-406 (1968; Zbl 0185.068)].