Nonsolvable groups with three nonlinear irreducible character codegrees (Q6127736)

Let \(G\) be a finite group and let \(\mathrm{Irr}(G)\) be the set of irreducible (complex) characters of \(G\). For \(\chi \in \mathrm{Irr}(G)\), the codegree of \(\chi\) is defined as \(\mathrm{cod}(\chi)=|G : \ker \chi |\cdot \chi(1)^{-1}\) and, if \(N \trianglelefteq G\), \(\mathrm{cod}(G | N)=\{\mathrm{cod}(\chi) \mid \chi \in \mathrm{Irr}(G), \;\ker \chi \not \leq N\}\). In the paper under review, the authors determine finite nonsolvable groups with exactly three nonlinear irreducible character codegrees, that is such that \(|\mathrm{cod}(G | G')|=3\). The main result is Theorem A: Let \(G\) be a finite nonsolvable group such that \(|\mathrm{cod}(G|G')| = 3\). Then \(G\) is isomorphic to one of the following groups: \(\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(2^{f})\), where \(f \geq 2\); \(\mathrm{PGL}_{2}(q)\), where \(q=p^{f}\) is an odd prime power larger than 3, and \(\mathrm{M}_{10}\). A direct consequence of Theorem A is Corollary B: If \(G\) is a finite non-solvable group such that \(|\mathrm{cod}(G)|= 4\), then \(G\) is isomorphic to \(\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(2^{f})\) for \(f \geq 2\).