Primitive characters of odd order groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2019.11.024MaRDI QIDQ2285235zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Claudio Marchi

Publication date 16 January 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11207

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesprimitive characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representation theory of groups (20C99) Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, (pi)-groups, (pi)-structure (20D20)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group of odd order. We show that if $chi$ is an irreducible primitive character of $G$ then for all primes $p$ dividing the order of $G$ there is a conjugacy class such that the $p-$part of $chi(1)$ divides the size of that conjugacy class. We also show that for some classes of groups the entire degree of an irreducible primitive character $chi$ divides the size of a conjugacy class.

Review text

This paper is concerned with a conjecture first stated in [\textit{I. M. Isaacs} et al., Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 134, No. 11, 3123--3130 (2006; Zbl 1117.20006)], namely that if \(\chi\) is an irreducible primitive character of a finite group \(G\), then \(\chi(1)\) divides \(|g^G|\) for some element \(g\in G\). Here \(g^G\) denotes the conjugacy class of \(G\) containing \(g\). In [loc. cit.], the authors proved a weak version of this conjecture as follows: If \(G\) is solvable and \(p\) a prime dividing \(|G|\), then \(\chi(1)_p\) divides \({|g^G|_p}^3\) for some element \(g\in G\). Here, \(m_p\) denotes the \(p\)-part of the prime factorization of the integer \(m\). In the paper under review, the author strengthens the result on \(p\)-parts for groups of odd order by removing the exponent 3 from the statement. His approach is similar to the earlier proof, but the oddness hypothesis allows him to use the symplectic structure of some modules to get sharper bounds on the order of Sylow subgroups. Moreover, the author proves that the original conjecture is true for odd-order meta-nilpotent \(p^a q^b\)-groups.

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