Height of Exceptional Character Degrees

AFFINE SUBGROUPS OF THE CLASSICAL GROUPS AND THEIR CHARACTER DEGREES

In this paper we describe how the degrees of the irreducible characters of the affine subgroups of the classical groups under consideration can be found inductively. In [4] Gow obtained certain character degrees for all of the affine subgroups of the classical groups. We apply the method of Fischer to the above groups and, in addition to the character degrees given in [4], we obtain some ne...

On Finite Groups With Two Irreducible Character Degrees

Character Degrees of Extensions of PSL2(q)

Denote by S the 2-dimensional projective special linear group PSL2(q) over the field of q elements. We determine, for all values of q > 3, the degrees of the irreducible complex characters of every group H such that S 6 H 6 Aut(S). Explicit knowledge of the character tables of PSL2(q) and PGL2(q) is used along with standard Clifford theory to obtain the degrees.

Prime Divisors of Irreducible Character Degrees

Let G be a finite group. We denote by ρ(G) the set of primes which divide some character degrees of G and by σ(G) the largest number of distinct primes which divide a single character degree of G. We show that |ρ(G)| ≤ 2σ(G) + 1 when G is an almost simple group. For arbitrary finite groups G, we show that |ρ(G)| ≤ 2σ(G) + 1 provided that σ(G) ≤ 2.

computing character degrees via a galois connection

in a previous paper, the second author established that, given finite fields $f < e$ and certain subgroups $c leq e^times$, there is a galois connection between the intermediate field lattice ${l mid f leq l leq e}$ and $c$'s subgroup lattice. based on the galois connection, the paper then calculated the irreducible, complex character degrees of the semi-direct product $c rtimes {rm gal} (e/f)$...