Generalized characters whose values on non-identity elements are roots of unity. (Q651249)

The paper under review concerns the generalized complex characters of a finite group \(H\) whose values on the non-identity elements of \(H\) are roots of unity. The first part of the main theorem states that if \(\theta\) is such a character, and the Sylow \(2\)-subgroup of \(H\) has no cyclic subgroup of index \(2\), then \(\theta=\lambda\psi\), where \(\psi\) is a linear character of \(H\) and \(\psi\) is a generalized character of \(H\) whose values on the non-identity elements of \(H\) are either \(+1\) or \(-1\). The author mentions that one of the motivations for the work comes from the Glauberman correspondence. Let \(G\rtimes A\) be a finite group such that \(|G|\) and \(|A|\) are coprime and the Sylow \(2\)-subgroup of \(A\) has no cyclic subgroup of index \(2\). A corollary of the main theorem characterizes the \(A\)-stable irreducible characters of \(G\rtimes A\), all of whose Glauberman correspondent characters for \(C_G(a)\) where \(a\in A\setminus\{1\}\) are linear.