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On the Navarro–Willems conjecture for blocks of finite groups

Jørn B. OlssonGabriel NavarroChristine BessenrodtPham Huu Tiep

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CombinatoricsSet (abstract data type)Discrete mathematicsFinite groupAlgebra and Number TheoryConjectureGroup (mathematics)Group orderMathematics

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Abstract We prove that a set of characters of a finite group can only be the set of characters for principal blocks of the group at two different primes when the primes do not divide the group order. This confirms a conjecture of Navarro and Willems in the case of principal blocks.

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2007-02-01Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
10.1016/j.jpaa.2006.01.013http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2006.01.013