Real strongly monolithic characters of finite groups

DOI10.1007/S11587-025-00984-8MaRDI QIDQ6877988zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Temha Erkoç, Ömer Demir

Publication date 7 January 2026

Published in Ricerche di Matematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11587-025-00984-8

zbMATH Keywords

real characterstrongly monolithic characterzero of irreducible character

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05)

Review text

A monolithic character \(\chi\) of a finite group \(G\) is called strongly monolithic if either \(\mathbf{Z}(\chi)=\ker\chi\), where \(\mathbf{Z}(\chi)=\{g\in G\mid |\chi(g)|=\chi(1)\}\) or \(G/\ker\chi\) is a \(p\)-group whose commutator subgroup is its unique minimal normal subgroup. Real strongly monolithic characters are the ones taking only real values.\N\NTheorem 1 shows that if every real strongly monolithic character of \(G\) has even degree, then \(G\) has a normal \(2\)-complement, hence \(G\) is solvable. Theorem 2 proves that \(G\) is solvable if every real strongly monolithic character has prime degree. Theorem 3 shows that \(G\) is solvable when the set of degrees of real strongly monolithic characters has cardinality at most \(2\) and that every non-solvable group has a real strongly monolithic character of degree at least \(5\).\N\NTheorem 4 deals with odd-square-free groups \(G\) such that \(G/G'\) is a \(2\)-group, under additional assumptions on kernels of odd-degree real strongly monolithic characters and on the number of zeros of odd-degree irreducible characters. Under these hypotheses, \(G\) is either solvable or isomorphic to \(\mathrm{PGL}_2(q)\), where \(q\ge5\) and \(q^2-1\) is odd-square-free.

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