We study the solvable groups $G$ that have an irreducible character $χ\in \Irr(G)$ such that $χ\barχ$ has at most two non-principal irreducible constituents.
Let $G$ be a finite solvable group and $χ, ψ\in \Irr(G)$ be complex characters of $G$. Let $α$ be an irreducible constituent of the product $χψ$. We show that the derived length of $\Ker(α)/\Ker(χψ)$ is bounded by a linear function on the number of distinct irreducible constituents of $χψ$
Let G be a finite solvable group and $χ\in \Irr(G)$ be a faithful character. We show that the derived length of G is bounded by a linear function of the number of distinct irreducible constituents of $χ\barχ$. We also discuss other properties of the decomposition of $χ\barχ$ into its irreducible constituents.
Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group and $χ,ψ$ be irreducible characters of $G$. We study the character $χψ$ when $χψ$ has at most $p-1$ distinct irreducible constituents.
Let G be a finite p-group, where p is a prime number, and $χ$ and $ψ$ be faithful complex irreducible characters of G. We study the relation between the number $η(χ,ψ)$ of distinct irreducible constituents of the product $χψ$ and p.
We extend the Howlett-Isaacs theorem on the solvability of groups of central type taking into account actions by automorphisms. Then we study certain induced characters whose constituents have all the same degree.
Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group, where $p$ is an odd prime number, $H$ be a subgroup of $G$ and $θ\in \Irr(H)$ be an irreducible character of $H$. Assume also that $|G:H|=p^2$. Then the character $θ^G$ of $ G$ induced by $θ$ is either a multiple of an irreducible character of $G$, or has at least $\frac{p+1}{2}$ distinct irreducible constituents.
We show that a tensor product of irreducible, finite dimensional representations of a simple Lie algebra over a field of characteristic zero, determines the individual constituents uniquely. This is analogous to the uniqueness of prime factorisation of natural numbers.
We study the decomposition of certain reducible characters of classical groups as the sum of irreducible ones. Let ${\mathbf G}$ be an algebraic group of classical type with defining characteristic $p>0$, $μ$ a dominant weight and $W$ the Weyl group of ${\mathbf G}$. Let $G=G(q)$ be a finite classical group, where $q$ is a $p$-power. For a weight $μ$ of ${\mathbf G}$ the sum $s_μ$ of distinct weights $w(μ)$ with $w\in W$ viewed as a function on the semisimple elements of $G$ is known to be a generalized Brauer character of $G$ called an orbit character of $G$. We compute, for certain orbit cha…
We determine the irreducible 2-modular representations of the symplectic group $G=Sp_{2n}(2)$ whose restriction to every abelian subgroup has a trivial constituent. A similar result is obtained for maximal tori of $G$. There is significant information on the existence of eigenvalue 1 of elements of $G$ in a given irreducible representation of $G$.
Let $G$ be a finite simple group of Lie type, and let $π_G$ be the permutation representation of $G$ associated with the action of $G$ on itself by conjugation. We prove that every irreducible representation of $G$ is a constituent of $π_G$, unless $G=PSU_n(q)$ and $n$ is coprime to $2(q+1)$, where precisely one irreducible representation fails. Let St be the Steinberg representation of $G$. We prove that a complex irreducible representation of $G$ is a constituent of the tensor square $St\otimes St$, with the same exceptions as in the previous statement.
Let $H$ be a linear algebraic group whose connected component $G\neq 1$ is simple and $H/G$ is cyclic. We determine the irreducible projective representations $ϕ$ of $H$ such that $ϕ(G)$ is irreducible and $ϕ(h)$ has simple spectrum for some $h\in H$. The latter means that all irreducible constituents of the group $ϕ( \langle h\rangle)$ are of multiplicity 1. (Here $\langle h\rangle$ is the subgroup of $H$ generated by $h$.) This extends an earlier known result for $H=G$.
We restrict irreducible characters of alternating groups of degree divisible by $p$ to their Sylow $p$-subgroups and study the number of linear constituents.
We construct a natural bijection between odd-degree irreducible characters of S_n and linear characters of its Sylow 2-subgroup P_n. When n is a power of 2, we show that such a bijection is nicely induced by the restriction functor. We conclude with a characterization of the irreducible characters χof S_n such that the restriction of χto P_n has a unique linear constituent.
A character of a group is said to be super-monomial if every primitive character inducing it is linear. It is conjectured by Isaacs that every irreducible character of an odd $M$-group is super-monomial. We show that all non linear irreducible characters of lowest degree of an odd $M$-group is super-monomial and provide cases in which one can guarantee that certain irreducible characters of normal subgroups are super-monomial. Finally, we study groups having two irreducible monomial character degrees.
The irreducible representations $ϕ_n^1$ and $ϕ_n^2$ of the symplectic group $G_n=Sp_{2n}(P)$ over an algebraically closednfield $P$ of characteristic $p>2$ with highest weights $ω_{n-1}+\frac{p-3}{2}ω_n$ and $\frac{p-1}{2}ω_n$, respectively, are investigated. It is proved that the dimension of $ϕ_n^i$ ($i=1,2$) is equal to $(p^n+(-1)^i )/2$, all weight multiplicities of these representations are equal to $1$, their restrictions to the group $G_k$ naturally embedded into $G_n$ are completely reducible with irreducible constituents $ϕ_k^1$ and $ϕ_k^2$, and their restrictions to $Sp_{2n}(p)$ can …
The deep theory of approximate subgroups establishes 3-step product growth for subsets of finite simple groups $G$ of Lie type of bounded rank. In this paper we obtain 2-step growth results for representations of such groups $G$ (including those of unbounded rank), where products of subsets are replaced by tensor products of representations. Let $G$ be a finite simple group of Lie type and $χ$ a character of $G$. Let $|χ|$ denote the sum of the squares of the degrees of all (distinct) irreducible characters of $G$ which are constituents of $χ$. We show that for all $δ>0$ there exists $ε>0$, in…
We determine the irreducible constituents of the Steinberg character of an orthogonal group over a finite field restricted to the orthogonal group of one less dimension
We classify the finite groups $G$ which satisfies the condition that every complex irreducible character,whose degree's square doesn't divide the index of its kernel in $G$, lies in the same Galois conjugacy class.
Let p be a prime number. Let G be a finite p-group and $χ\in Irr(G)$. Denote by $\barχ \in Irr(G)$ the complex conjugate of $χ$. Assume that $χ(1)=p^n$. We show that the number of distinct irreducible constituents of the product $χ\barχ$ is at least $2n(p-1)+1$.
In this work, we classify all finite groups such that for every field extension F of \mathbb{Q}, F is the field of values of at most 3 irreducible characters.
In this paper we determine the ordinary irreducible characters of the five-dimensional full linear group over a Galois field of q elements. We use the techniques developed by J. A. Green.
Let G be a finite group and N be a non-trivial normal subgroup of G, such that the average character degree of irreducible characters in Irr(G|N) is less than or equal to 16=5. Then we prove that N is solvable. Also, we prove the solvability of G, by assuming that the average character degree of irreducible characters in Irr(G|N) is strictly less than 16=5. We show that the bounds are sharp.
For an irreducible character $χ$ of a finite group $G$, the codegree of $χ$ is defined as $|G:\ker(χ)|/χ(1)$. In this paper, we determine finite nonsolvable groups with exactly three nonlinear irreducible character codegrees, and they are $\mathrm{L}_2(2^f)$ for $f\ge 2$, $\mathrm{PGL}_2(q)$ for odd $q\ge 5$ or $\mathrm{M}_{10}$.
Let $U_n(q)$ denote the upper triangular group of degree $n$ over the finite field $\F_q$ with $q$ elements. It is known that irreducible constituents of supercharacters partition the set of all irreducible characters $\Irr(U_n(q)).$ In this paper we present a correspondence between supercharacters and pattern subgroups of the form $U_k(q)\cap {}^wU_k(q)$ where $w$ is a monomial matrix in $GL_k(q)$ for some $k<n.$
We consider groups where the centers of the irreducible characters form a chain. We obtain two alternate characterizations of these groups, and we obtain some information regarding the structure of these groups. Using our results, we are able to classify those groups where the kernels of the irreducible characters form a chain. We show that a result of Nenciu regarding nested GVZ groups is really a result about nested groups. We obtain an alternate proof of a theorem of Isaacs regarding the existence of $p$-groups with a given set of irreducible character degrees.
Suppose that $B$ is a Brauer $p$-block with defect group $D$. If $B$ exactly contains 4 irreducible characters, then we show that $D$ has order 4 or 5, assuming the Alperin--McKay conjecture.
Isaacs has defined a character to be super monomial if every primitive character inducing it is linear. Isaacs has conjectured that if $G$ is an $M$-group with odd order, then every irreducible character is super monomial. We prove that the conjecture is true if $G$ is an $M$-group of odd order where every irreducible character is a $\{p \}$-lift for some prime $p$. We say that a group where irreducible character is super monomial is a super $M$-group. We use our results to find an example of a super $M$-group that has a subgroup that is not a super $M$-group.
A well-known theorem of Burnside says that if $ρ$ is a faithful representation of a finite group $G$ over a field of characteristic $0$, then every irreducible representation of $G$ appears as a constituent of a tensor power of $ρ$. In 1962, R. Steinberg gave a module theoretic proof that simultaneously removed the constraint on the characteristic, and allowed the group to be replaced by a monoid. Brauer subsequently simplified Burnside's proof and, moreover, showed that if the character of $ρ$ takes on $r$ distinct values, then the first $r$ tensor powers of $ρ$ already contain amongst them a…
Motivated by the study of an Hecke action on iterated Shimura integrals undertaken in [H], in this appendix to [H] we prove that, for any prime $p \geq 5$ and for any integer $n \geq 1$, every complex irreducible representation of $G=\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}/p^n \mathbb{Z})$ that are trivial on $\mathbf{Z}(G)$ appears as an irreducible constituent of the conjugation representation of $G$.
In this paper we consider finite groups G satisfying the following condition: G has two columns in its character table which differ by exactly one entry. It turns out that such groups exist and they are exactly the finite groups with a non-trivial intersection of the kernels of all but one irreducible characters or, equivalently, finite groups with an irreducible character vanishing on all but two conjugacy classes. We investigate such groups and in particular we characterize their subclass, which properly contains all finite groups with non-linear characters of distinct degrees, which were ch…
We propose upper bounds for the number of modular constituents of the restriction modulo $p$ of a complex irreducible character of a finite group, and for its decomposition numbers, in certain cases.
Let $G$ be a finite group and $d$ the degree of a complex irreducible character of $G$, then write $|G|=d(d+e)$ where $e$ is a nonnegative integer. We prove that $|G|\leq e^4-e^3$ whenever $e>1$. This bound is best possible and improves on several earlier related results.
We classify the finite groups whose non-linear irreducible characters that are not conjugate under the natural Galois action have distinct degrees, therefore extending the results in Berkovich et al. [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. {\bf 115} (1992), 955-959] and Dolfi et al. [Israel J. Math. {\bf 198} (2013), 283-331].
Let $G$ be a finite group and let $\rm{Irr}(G)$ be the set of all irreducible complex characters of $G$. For a character $χ\in \rm{Irr}(G)$, the number $\rm{cod}(χ):=|G:\rm{ker}χ|/χ(1)$ is called the co-degree of $χ$. The set of co-degrees of all irreducible characters of $G$ is denoted by $\rm{cod}(G)$. In this paper, we show that for a non-trivial finite group $G$, $|\rm{Irr}(G)|=|\rm{cod}(G)|$ if and only if $G$ is isomorphic to the cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}_2$ or the symmetric group $S_3$.
In this paper, we prove the existence of a relation between the prime divisors of the order of a Sylow normalizer and the degree of characters having values in some small cyclotomic fields. This relation is stronger when the group is solvable.
In this paper, we construct a group with three real irreducible characters whose Sylow 2-subgroup is an iterated central extension of a Suzuki 2-group. This answers a question raised by Moreto and Navarro who asked whether such a group exists.
We study the action of a finite group on the Riemann-Roch space of certain divisors on a curve. If $G$ is a finite subgroup of the automorphism group of a projective curve $X$ over an algebraically closed field and $D$ is a divisor on $X$ left stable by $G$ then we show the irreducible constituents of the natural representation of $G$ on the Riemann-Roch space $L(D)=L_X(D)$ are of dimension $\leq d$, where $d$ is the size of the smallest $G$-orbit acting on $X$. We give an example to show that this is, in general, sharp (i.e., that dimension $d$ irreducible constituents can occur). Connections…
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Guangxi Normal University(广西师范大学数学与统计学院);Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University(上海大学数学系);Newtouch Center for Mathematics of Shanghai University(上海大学新拓数学中心)
Let $p$ be an odd prime and let $n$ be a natural number. In this article we determine the irreducible constituents of the permutation module induced by the action of the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$ on the cosets of a Sylow $p$-subgroup $P_n$. As a consequence, we determine the number of irreducible representations of the corresponding Hecke algebra $\mathcal{H}(\mathfrak{S}_n, P_n, 1_{P_n})$.
The branching theorem expresses irreducible character values for the symmetric group $S_n$ in terms of those for $S_{n-1}$, but it gives the values only at elements of $S_n$ having a fixed point. We extend the theorem by providing a recursion formula that handles the remaining cases. It expresses these character values in terms of values for $S_{n-1}$ together with values for $S_n$ that are already known in the recursive process. This provides an alternative to the Murnaghan-Nakayama formula.
We are interested in determining the bound of the average of the degrees of the irreducible characters whose degrees are not divisible by some prime $p$ that guarantees a finite group $G$ of odd order is $p$-nilpotent. We find a bound that depends on the prime $p$. If we further restrict our average by fixing a subfield $k$ of the complex numbers and then compute the average of the degrees of the irreducible characters whose degrees are not divisible by $p$ and have values in $k$, then we will see that we obtain a bound that depends on both $p$ and $k$. Moreover, we find examples that make tho…
Let $N$ be a normal subgroup of a finite group $G$. In this paper, we consider the elements $g$ of $N$ such that $χ(g)\neq 0$ for all irreducible characters $χ$ of $G$. Such an element is said to be non-vanishing in $G$. Let $p$ be a prime. If all $p$-elements of $N$ satisfy the previous property, then we prove that $N$ has a normal Sylow $p$-subgroup. As a consequence, we also study certain arithmetical properties of the $G$-conjugacy class sizes of the elements of $N$ which are zeros of some irreducible character of $G$. In particular, if $N=G$, then new contributions are obtained.
Let G be a finite p-group, for some prime p, and $ψ, θ\in \Irr(G)$ be irreducible complex characters of G. It has been proved that if, in addition, $ψ,θ$ are faithful characters, then the product $ψθ$ is a multiple of an irreducible or it is the nontrivial linear combination of at least $\frac{p+1}{2}$ distinct irreducible characters of G. We show that if we do not require the characters to be faithful, then given any integer k>0, we can always find a p-group G and irreducible characters $Ψ$ and $Θ$ such that $ΨΘ$ is the nontrivial combination of exactly k distinct irreducible characters. We d…
In this paper, we determine new characterizations of nested and nested GVZ-groups, including character-free characterizations, but we additionally show that nested groups and nested GVZ-groups can be defined in terms of the existence of certain normal series.
We define and study supercharacters of the classical finite unipotent groups of symplectic and orthogonal types (over any finite field of odd characteristic). We show how supercharacters for groups of those types can be obtained by restricting the supercharacter theory of the finite unitriangular group, and prove that supercharacters are orthogonal and provide a partition of the set of all irreducible characters. We also describe all irreducible characters of maximum degree in terms of the root system, and show how they can be obtained as constituents of particular supercharacters.
We prove a broad generalization of a theorem of W. Burnside on real characters using permutation characters. Under a necessary hypothesis, We can give some control on multiplicities (a result that needs the Classification of Finite Simple Groups). Along the way, we also give a new characterization of the 2-closed finite groups using odd-order real elements of the group. All this can be seen as a contribution to Brauer's Problem 11. We also obtain similar results for 2-Brauer characters. We also classify finite primitive permutation groups in which every real element has a fixed point.