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On almost p-rational characters of p -degree

  • Nguyen Ngoc Hung EMAIL logo , Gunter Malle und Attila Maróti
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 26. Oktober 2022

Abstract

Let p be a prime and let G be a finite group. A complex character of G is called almost p-rational if its values belong to a cyclotomic field ( e 2 π i / n ) for some n + not divisible by p 2 . We prove that, in contrast to usual p-rational characters, there are “many” almost p-rational irreducible characters in finite groups. We obtain both explicit and asymptotic bounds for the number of almost p-rational irreducible characters of G in terms of p. In fact, motivated by the McKay–Navarro conjecture, we obtain the same bound for the number of such characters of p -degree and prove that, in the minimal situation, the number of almost p-rational irreducible p -characters of G coincides with that of 𝐍 G ( P ) for P Syl p ( G ) . Lastly, we propose a new way to detect the cyclicity of Sylow p-subgroups of a finite group G from its character table, using almost p-rational irreducible p -characters and the blockwise refinement of the McKay–Navarro conjecture.


Communicated by Manfred Droste


Award Identifier / Grant number: 286237555

Award Identifier / Grant number: 741420

Award Identifier / Grant number: K132951

Award Identifier / Grant number: K138596

Award Identifier / Grant number: K138828

Funding statement: The second author gratefully acknowledges support by the DFG, TRR 195, Project-ID 286237555. The work of the third author on the project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 741420), and is supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) Grant nos. K132951, K138596 and K138828.

Acknowledgements

We thank Gabriel Navarro for his insightful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.

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Received: 2022-01-04
Revised: 2022-09-06
Published Online: 2022-10-26
Published in Print: 2022-11-01

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