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Groups whose irreducible representations have finite degree

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

B. A. F. Wehrfritz
B. A. F. Wehrfritz
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Queen Mary College, London
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Throughout this paper F denotes a (commutative) field. Let XF denote the class of all groups G such that every irreducible FC-module has finite dimension over F. In (1) P. Hall showed that if F is not locally finite and if G is polycyclic, then G∈XF if and only if G is abelian-by-finite. Also in (1), if F is locally finite he proved that every finitely generated nilpotent group is in XF and he conjectured that XF should contain every polycyclic group. This turned out to be very difficult, but a positive solution was eventually found by Roseblade, see (8). Meanwhile Levič in (4) had started a systematic investigation of the classes XF. Although his paper contains a number of errors, obscurities and omissions, it remains an interesting work, and it, or more accurately its recent translation, stimulated this present paper.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 90 , Issue 3 , November 1981 , pp. 411 - 421
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1981

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