Quasisimple classical groups and their complex group algebras. (Q375699)

Recently, Tong-Viet in a series paper has succeeded in proving that, if \(G\) is a finite group and \(H\) is a finite simple group such that \(\mathbb CG\cong\mathbb CH\), then \(G\cong H\). The main purpose of this paper is to improve Tong-Viet's result to quasisimple groups in the case of classical groups. Let \(H\) be a finite quasisimple classical group, i.e., \(H\) is perfect and \(S:=H/Z(H)\) is a finite simple classical group. The author proves that, excluding the open case when \(S\) has a very exceptional Schur multiplier such as \(PSL_3(4)\) or \(PSL_4(3)\), \(H\) is uniquely determined by the structure of its complex group algebra. The proofs make essential use of the classification of finite simple groups as well as the results on prime power character degrees and relatively small character degrees of quasisimple classical groups.