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ON p-SOLVABILITY AND AVERAGE CHARACTER DEGREE IN A FINITE GROUP

Part of: Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

ESMAEEL ESKANDARI Open the ORCID record for ESMAEEL ESKANDARI [Opens in a new window]  and
NEDA AHANJIDEH Open the ORCID record for NEDA AHANJIDEH [Opens in a new window]
ESMAEEL ESKANDARI
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahrekord University, P.O. Box 115, Shahrekord, Iran e-mail: [email protected]
NEDA AHANJIDEH*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahrekord University, P.O. Box 115, Shahrekord, Iran e-mail: [email protected]
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e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Assume that G is a finite group, N is a nontrivial normal subgroup of G and p is an odd prime. Let $\mathrm{Irr}_p(G)=\{\chi \in \mathrm{Irr}(G) : \chi (1)=1~\mathrm{or}~ p \mid \chi (1)\}$ and $\mathrm{Irr}_p(G|N)=\{\chi \in \mathrm{Irr}_p(G) : N \not \leq \mathrm{ker}\,\chi \}$. The average character degree of irreducible characters of $\mathrm{Irr}_p(G)$ and the average character degree of irreducible characters of $\mathrm{Irr}_p(G|N)$ are denoted by $\mathrm{acd}_p(G)$ and $\mathrm{acd}_p(G|N)$, respectively. We show that if $\mathrm{Irr}_p(G|N) \neq \emptyset $ and $\mathrm{acd}_p(G|N) < \mathrm{acd}_p(\mathrm{PSL}_2(p))$, then G is p-solvable and $O^{p'}(G)$ is solvable. We find examples that make this bound best possible. Moreover, we see that if $\mathrm{Irr}_p(G|N) = \emptyset $, then N is p-solvable and $P \cap N$ and $PN/N$ are abelian for every $P \in \mathrm{Syl}_p(G)$.

Keywords

p-solvable groupaverage character degree

MSC classification

Primary: 20C15: Ordinary representations and characters
Secondary: 20D05: Finite simple groups and their classification
Type
Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 109 , Issue 3 , June 2024 , pp. 507 - 511
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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