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Certain monomial characters and their normal constituents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2015

Gabriel Navarro
Affiliation:
Universitat de València
Carolina Vallejo
Affiliation:
Universitat de València
C. M. Campbell
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
M. R. Quick
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
E. F. Robertson
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
C. M. Roney-Dougal
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Abstract

Suppose that G is a finite p-solvable group such that NG(P)/P has odd order, where P ∈ Sylp(G). If χ is an irreducible complex character with degree not divisible by p and field of values contained in a cyclotomic field Qpa, then every subnormal constituent of χ is monomial. Also, the number of such irreducible characters is the number of NG(P)-orbits on P/P’.

Introduction

There are few results guaranteeing that a single irreducible complex character χ ∈ Irr(G) of a finite group G is monomial. Recall that χ ∈ Irr(G) is monomial if there is ƛ ∈ Irr(U) linear such that ƛG = χ. It is known that every irreducible character of a supersolvable group is monomial, for instance, but this result depends more on the structure of the group rather than on the properties of the characters themselves. An exception is a theorem by R. Gow of 1975 ([3]): an odd degree real valued irreducible character of a solvable group is monomial. Recently, we gave in [8] an extension of this theorem which also dealt with the degree and the field of values of the character. (Yet another similar monomiality criterium was given in [9]: if the field of values Q(χ) of χ is contained in the cyclotomic field Qn and (χ(1), 2n) = 1, then χ is monomial whenever G is solvable.) In this note, we apply non-trivial Isaacs π-theory of solvable groups to give a shorter proof of the above result at the same time that we gain some new information about the subnormal constituents of the characters, among other things. It does not seem easy at all to prove these new facts without using this deep theory.

Recall that for every solvable group and any set of primes π, M. Isaacs defined a canonical subset Bπ(G) of Irr(G) with remarkable properties ([4]). Since, by definition, every χBπ(G) is induced from a character of π-degree, it is clear that Bπ-characters of π’-degree are monomial.

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Print publication year: 2015

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