Brauer’s Height Zero Conjecture for principal blocks
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Gunter Malle
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Gabriel Navarro
Abstract
We prove the other half of Brauer’s Height Zero Conjecture in the case of principal blocks.
Funding source: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Award Identifier / Grant number: 286237555 – TRR 195
Funding statement: The first author gratefully acknowledges financial support by SFB TRR 195. The research of the second author is supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2019-103854GB-I00 and FEDER funds.
Acknowledgements
We thank Yanjun Liu, Lizhong Wang, Wolfgang Willems and Jiping Zhang for e-mails prompting our interest in the subject of this paper, and Yanjun Liu for pertinent questions on an earlier version.
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