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Landau's theorem and the number of conjugacy classes of zeros of characters

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Abstract Motivated by a 2004 conjecture by the author and J. Sangroniz, Y. Yang has recently proved that if G is solvable then the index in G of the 8th term of the ascending Fitting series is bounded in terms of the largest number of zeros in a row in the character table of G. In this note, we prove this result for arbitrary finite groups and propose a stronger form of the 2004 conjecture. We conclude the paper showing some possible ways to prove this strengthened conjecture.