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The largest Irreducible Character Degree of a Finite Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David Gluck
David Gluck*
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Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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Much information about a finite group is encoded in its character table. Indeed even a small portion of the character table may reveal significant information about the group. By a famous theorem of Jordan, knowing the degree of one faithful irreducible character of a finite group gives an upper bound for the index of its largest normal abelian subgroup.

Here we consider b(G), the largest irreducible character degree of the group G. A simple application of Frobenius reciprocity shows that b(G) ≧ |G:A| for any abelian subgroup A of G. In light of this fact and Jordan's theorem, one might seek to bound the index of the largest abelian subgroup of G from above by a function of b(G). If is G is nilpotent, a result of Isaacs and Passman (see [7, Theorem 12.26]) shows that G has an abelian subgroup of index at most b(G)4.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , 01 June 1985 , pp. 442 - 451
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1985

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