The p-parts of Brauer character degrees in p-solvable groups (Q1122651)

Let G be a finite group. Fix a prime integer p and let e be the largest integer such that \(p^ e\) divides the degree of some irreducible Brauer character of G with respect to the same prime p. The primary object of this paper is to obtain information about the structure of Sylow p- subgroups of a finite p-solvable group G in knowledge of e. As applications, we obtain a bound for the derived length of the factor group of a solvable group G relative to its unique maximal normal p- subgroup in terms of the arithmetic structure of its Brauer character degrees and a bound for the derived length of the factor group of G relative to its Fitting subgroup in terms of the maximal integer e when p runs through the prime divisors of the order of G.