Prime Factors of π-Partial Character Degrees and Conjugacy Class Sizes of π-Elements (Q5714712)

Let \(\pi\) be a set of primes, and let \(G\) be a finite \(\pi\)-separable group. The restriction to the set \(G_\pi\) of \(\pi\)-elements of \(G\) of a character of \(G\) is called a \(\pi\)-partial character of \(G\). The set \(\text{I}_\pi(G)\) of irreducible \(\pi\)-partial characters of \(G\) is the set of \(\pi\)-partial characters that cannot be written as non-trivial sums of \(\pi\)-partial characters. Assume that \(G\) is solvable. The first main result of the paper states that any prime dividing any irreducible \(\pi\)-partial character degree of \(G\) divides the size of some conjugacy class of \(\pi\)-elements of \(G\). The second main result reads as follows. Let \(r\) and \(s\) be two distinct primes, and suppose that there is \(\varphi\in\text{I}_\pi(G)\) such that \(rs\mid\varphi(1)\) and the \(\{r,s\}\)-length of \(G\) is \(\leq 1\). Then there is a conjugacy class \(C\) of \(\pi\)-elements such that \(rs\) divides \(|C|\).