On the number of conjugacy class sizes and character degrees in finite \(p\)-groups (Q2731910)

In this short but very nice paper the authors show that given any two integers \(r\) and \(s\), both greater than 1, there is a group which has exactly \(r\) different character degrees and \(s\) different sizes of conjugacy classes. The groups concerned are all \(p\)-groups of nilpotency class 2. The proofs are elementary but it is revealing that \textit{J. Cossey} and \textit{T. Hawkes} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 128, No. 1, 49-51 (2000; Zbl 0937.20010)] showed that all possible sets of values were possible for the sizes of the conjugacy classes in a \(p\)-group they also only needed to use class 2 groups.