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Products of characters and derived length of finite solvable groups

Posted on:2003-04-22Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignCandidate:Adan-Bante, EdithFull Text:PDF
GTID:1460390011979338Subject:Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
Let G be a finite group. Denote by Irr(G) the set of irreducible complex characters of G. Let 1 G be the principal character of G. Denote by [Θ, Φ] the inner product of the characters Θ and Φ of G. Set Ker( c ) = {lcub}gG c (G) = c (1){rcub}.; Let c ∈ Irr(G). Define c (g) to be the complex conjugate cg of c (g) for all g ∈ G. Then the character cc has 1G as a constituent and the decomposition into its irreducible constituents 1G, α 1, α2,…, αn has the form cc=1G+ i=1
    n
aiai,
where ai is the multiplicity of αi. Set η( c ) = n.; We prove that there exist constants C and D such that for any finite solvable group and any irreducible character c of G, dlG/Kerc Ch c+ D where dl(G/Ker( c )) denotes the derived length of the group G/Ker( c ).; Also we prove that c (1) has at most η( c ) distinct prime divisors and 1 ∈ {lcub}ai | i = 1,…,η( c ){rcub} if G is solvable and c (1) > 1.
Keywords/Search Tags:Character, Solvable, Finite
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