Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We extend a result of Noritzsch, which describes the orbit sizes in the action of a Frobenius group $G$ on a finite vector space
$V$ under certain conditions, to a more general class of finite solvable groups
$G$. This result has applications in computing irreducible character degrees of finite groups. Another application, proved here, is a result concerning the structure of certain groups with few complex irreducible character degrees.