Orders of elements and zeros and heights of characters in a finite group

2006/04/14 by Wilde, Tom
#20C15 (Primary) #20C20 (Secondary) #FOS: Mathematics #Representation Theory (math.RT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0604337

Abstract

Let χbe an irreducible character of the finite group G. If g is an element of G and χ(g) is not zero, then we conjecture that the order of g divides |G|/χ(1). The conjecture is a generalization of the classical fact that irreducible p-projective characters vanish on p-singular elements, since the latter is equivalent to saying that if χ(g) is not zero then the square free part of the order of g divides |G|/χ(1). We prove some partial results on the conjecture; in particular, we show that the order of g divides (|G|/χ(1))². Using these results, we derive some bounds on heights of characters. We also pose a related conjecture concerning congruences satisfied by central character values.

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