A construction of two distinct canonical sets of lifts of Brauer characters of a \(p\)-solvable group. (Q854689)

Let \(G\) be a finite \(p\)-solvable group. By the Fong-Swan Theorem, for each \(\varphi\in\text{IBr}(G)\) there is a \(\chi\in\text{Irr}(G)\), called a lift, such that the restriction \(\chi^\circ\) of \(\chi\) to the \(p\)-regular elements of \(G\) equals \(\varphi\). \textit{I. M. Isaacs} [in J. Algebra 86, 98-128 (1984; Zbl 0526.20006)] constructed a set \(B_{p'}(G)\) of canonical lifts such that for each \(\varphi\in\text{IBr}(G)\) there is a unique lift in \(B_{p'}(G)\). \textit{G. Navarro} [in Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 354, No. 7, 2759-2773 (2002; Zbl 0998.20012)] constructed another canonical set \(N_{p'}(G)\) of lifts and conjectured that \(B_{p'}(G)\not=N_{p'}(G)\). The paper under review gives an example showing that these sets indeed need not be equal, and it also gives some conditions under which they are equal, e.g. when \(|G|\) is odd.