Nonsolvable groups have a large proportion of vanishing elements

DOI10.1007/S11856-022-2395-2MaRDI QIDQ6103902zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander Moretó, Pham Huu Tiep

Publication date 5 June 2023

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11856-022-2395-2

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible charactervanishing element

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group, an element \(g \in G\) is nonvanishing if \(\chi(g) \not= 0\) for every irreducible character \(\chi \in \mathrm{Irr}(G)\), otherwise \(g\) is vanishing. In this paper, the authors prove that if \(G\) is a nonsolvable group, then the proportion of vanishing elements of \(G\) is at least \(1067/1260\) (and this lower bound is optimal since it is reached by the alternating group \(A_{7}\)). As a tool in the proof of the previous result, the authors show that if \(G\) is an almost simple group with socle \(S\), then all the elements in \(G \setminus S\) are vanishing.

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