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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Invariant characters and coprime actions on finite nilpotent groups

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Suppose that a group A acts via automorphisms on a nilpotent group G having coprime order. Given an A-invariant character \(\chi \in {\rm Irr}(G)\), we show that the A-primitive irreducible characters that induce \(\chi \) from an A-invariant subgroup of G all have equal degree. We use this result to obtain some information about the characters of groups of p-length 1.