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Index Four Simple Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leo J. Alex
Affiliation:
State University College of New York, Oneonta, New York
Dean C. Morrow
Affiliation:
State University College of New York, Oneonta, New York
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An index four simple group is a finite simple group, G, with a self-centralizing Sylow p-subgroup whose normalizer in G has order 4p. In this paper index four simple groups having a non-principal ordinary irreducible character of small degree in the principal p-block are studied.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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