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Characters of p-groups
Berkovich mentioned the following result of Mann in his book on p-groups:
The number of nonlinear irreducible characters of given degree in a p-group is divided by p-1.
Do you kn …
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Product of conjugacy classes - is there an analog of Tanaka-Krein reconstruction ?
Consider a finite group G. The product of conjugacy classes can be defined in natural way just by multiplying the representatives and counting multiplicities (see e.g. MO 62088). …
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Why would dim primitive irrep divide size of some conjugacy class ?
From Isaacs et.al. 2005
Conjecture C. Let χ be a primitive
irreducible character of an arbitrary
finite group G. Then χ(1) divides |
clG(g)| for some element g ∈ G.
H …

