Primitive character degrees of solvable groups (Q2659131)

The authors generalize some recent results of \textit{C. Marchi} [J. Algebra 547, 345--357 (2020; Zbl 1451.20001)]. Namely, they prove that if \(G\) is a finite group, and \(\chi\) is a non-linear primitive irreducible character of \(G\) where \(G\) is \(\pi(\chi(1))\)-solvable then all of the following hold: \begin{enumerate} \item \(\chi(1)\) is smaller than the size of some conjugacy class of \(G\); \item For any prime \(p\), the \(p\)-part of \(\chi\) divides the size of some conjugacy class of \(G\); \item If \(|G|\) is only divisible by at most two primes, then \(\chi(1)\) divides the size of some conjugacy class of \(G\). \end{enumerate} Using the factorization of primitive characters, it easily follows that if \(p\) is a prime, \(G\) is any \(p\)-solvable group, and \(\chi\) is a primitive irreducible characters of \(G\), then the \(p\)-part \(\chi(1)\) divides the size of a conjugacy class of \(G\). This remark settles the \(p\)-version of a conjecture in [\textit{I. M. Isaacs} et al., Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 134, No. 11, 3123--3130 (2006; Zbl 1117.20006)] for \(\chi\) primitive and \(G\) \(p\)-solvable. The proofs in the paper use ideas of factorization of characters as initially proposed in [\textit{P. A. Ferguson} and \textit{A. Turull}, Math. Z. 190, 583--604 (1985; Zbl 0577.20006)].