Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Finite Simple Groups and Fusion Systems
- Finite and Infinite Quotients of Discrete and Indiscrete Groups
- Local-Global Conjectures and Blocks of Simple Groups
- A Survey on Some Methods of Generating Finite Simple Groups
- One-Relator Groups: An Overview
- New Progress in Products of Conjugacy Classes in Finite Groups
- Aspherical Relative Presentations all Over Again
- Simple Groups, Generation and Probabilistic Methods
- Irreducible Subgroups of Simple Algebraic Groups – A Survey
- Practical Computation with Linear Groups Over Infinite Domains
- Beauville p-Groups: A Survey
- Structural Criteria in Factorised Groups Via Conjugacy Class Sizes
- Growth in Linear Algebraic Groups and Permutation Groups: Towards a Unified Perspective
- L2-Betti Numbers and their Analogues in Positive Characteristic
- On the Pronormality of Subgroups of Odd Index in Finite Simple Groups
- Vertex Stabilizers of Graphs with Primitive Automorphism Groups and a Strong Version of the Sims Conjecture
- On the Character Degrees of a Sylow p-Subgroup of a Finite Chevalley Group G(pf) Over a Bad Prime
- Patterns on Symmetric Riemann Surfaces
- Subgroups of Twisted Wreath Products
- Some Remarks on Self-Dual Codes Invariant Under Almost Simple Permutation Groups
- Test Elements: From Pro-p to Discrete Groups
- References
On the Character Degrees of a Sylow p-Subgroup of a Finite Chevalley Group G(pf) Over a Bad Prime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Finite Simple Groups and Fusion Systems
- Finite and Infinite Quotients of Discrete and Indiscrete Groups
- Local-Global Conjectures and Blocks of Simple Groups
- A Survey on Some Methods of Generating Finite Simple Groups
- One-Relator Groups: An Overview
- New Progress in Products of Conjugacy Classes in Finite Groups
- Aspherical Relative Presentations all Over Again
- Simple Groups, Generation and Probabilistic Methods
- Irreducible Subgroups of Simple Algebraic Groups – A Survey
- Practical Computation with Linear Groups Over Infinite Domains
- Beauville p-Groups: A Survey
- Structural Criteria in Factorised Groups Via Conjugacy Class Sizes
- Growth in Linear Algebraic Groups and Permutation Groups: Towards a Unified Perspective
- L2-Betti Numbers and their Analogues in Positive Characteristic
- On the Pronormality of Subgroups of Odd Index in Finite Simple Groups
- Vertex Stabilizers of Graphs with Primitive Automorphism Groups and a Strong Version of the Sims Conjecture
- On the Character Degrees of a Sylow p-Subgroup of a Finite Chevalley Group G(pf) Over a Bad Prime
- Patterns on Symmetric Riemann Surfaces
- Subgroups of Twisted Wreath Products
- Some Remarks on Self-Dual Codes Invariant Under Almost Simple Permutation Groups
- Test Elements: From Pro-p to Discrete Groups
- References
Summary
Let q be a power of a prime p and let U(q) be a Sylow p-subgroup of a finite Chevalley group G(q) defined over the field with q elements. We first give a parametrization of the set Irr(U(q)) of irreducible characters of U(q) when G(q) is of type G2. This is uniform for primes p ≥ 5, while the bad primes p = 2 and p = 3 have to be considered separately. We then use this result and the contribution of several authors to show a general result, namely that if G(q) is any finite Chevalley group with p a bad prime, then there exists a character χ \in Irr(U(q)) such that χ(1) = qn/p for some n \in Z≥0 . In particular, for each G(q) and every bad prime p, we construct a family of characters of such degree as inflation followed by an induction of linear characters of an abelian subquotient V(q) of U(q).
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