Homogeneous products of characters.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2003.12.013MaRDI QIDQ1883006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edith Adan-Bante, Maria Loukaki, Alexander Moretó

Publication date 1 October 2004

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412382

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford theoremdihedral groupsfully ramified charactersnilpotent groupsproducts of faithful \(p\)-special charactersquaternion groupsemidihedral groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

Abstract: I. M. Isaacs has conjectured (see cite{isa00}) that if the product of two faithful irreducible characters of a solvable group is irreducible, then the group is cyclic. In this paper we prove a special case of the following conjecture, which generalizes Isaacs conjecture. Suppose that $G$ is solvable and that $psi,phiinIrr(G)$ are faithful. If $psiphi=mchi$ where $m$ is a positive integer and $chiinIrr(G)$ then $psi$ and $phi$ vanish on $G-Z(G)$. In particular we prove that the above conjecture holds for $p$-groups.

Review text

The authors prove that the following conjecture holds for nilpotent groups: Suppose that \(G\) is solvable and that \(\psi,\varphi\in\text{Irr}(G)\) are faithful. If \(\psi\varphi=m\chi\) where \(m\) is a positive integer and \(\chi\in\text{Irr}(G)\), then \(\psi\), \(\varphi\) and \(\chi\) vanish on \(G-Z(G)\). Moreover, they point out that the preceding conjecture holds for \(p\)-special characters in the sense of \textit{D. Gajendragadkar} [J. Algebra 59, 237-259 (1979; Zbl 0426.20007)]. As a consequence it is shown for a \(p\)-solvable group: If the product of two faithful \(p\)-special characters is a multiple of a \(p\)-special character, then \(G\) is a \(p\)-group.

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Cited in

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• Irreducible characters of p-group of order p^5
• Products of characters and finite p-groups.
• On the Number of Constituents of Products of Characters
• Squares of characters and finite groups.

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