Isaacs–Navarro's conjecture on p-rationality levels

Let pp be a prime, let GG be a finite group, let PSylp(G)P\in\operatorname{Syl}_p(G), and let αZ+\alpha\in\mathbb{Z}^{+}. The pp-rationality level of an irreducible character is determined by the pp-part of its conductor. Isaacs–Navarro's conjecture. One has

exp(P/P)pα\exp(P/P')\leq p^\alpha

if and only if every irreducible pp'-degree character of GG has pp-rationality level at most α\alpha.

The source says this is confirmed for p=2p=2; the if direction is confirmed for all pp, while the only-if direction has been reduced to almost quasisimple groups. Thus the full conjecture remains open in general.

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Primary source

Nguyen N. Hung, “The continuity of p-rationality and a lower bound for p'-degree characters of finite groups”, arXiv:2205.15899 (2023).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1512.01145, arXiv:1009.1413.

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