Zeros and roots of unity in character tables

DOI10.4171/LEM/1042MaRDI QIDQ6337644zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Rossi Miller

Publication date 30 March 2020

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/lem/1042

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15)

Abstract: For any finite group $G$, Thompson proved that, for each $chiinmIrr(G)$, $chi(g)$ is a root of unity or zero for more than a third of the elements $ginG$, and Gallagher proved that, for each larger than average class $g^G$, $chi(g)$ is a root of unity or zero for more than a third of the irreducible characters $chiinmIrr(G)$. We show that in many cases "more than a third" can be replaced by "more than half".

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