Cossey's conjecture on lifts of irreducible Brauer characters

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Let pp be a prime, let GG be a pp-solvable group, and let φ∈IBr⁡(G)\varphi\in\operatorname{IBr}(G) be an irreducible Brauer character. A lift of φ\varphi is a character χ∈Irr⁡(G)\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}(G) whose restriction χ0\chi^0 to the pp-regular elements of GG equals φ\varphi, and let LφL_\varphi be the set of all lifts. If QQ is a vertex for φ\varphi in the sense of Green, Cossey's conjecture.

∣Lφ∣≤∣Q:Q′∣.|L_\varphi|\leq |Q:Q'|.

This conjecture generalizes the known bound in the normal-vertex case and is established when QQ is abelian, but its general status is not specified in the source.

References

Primary source

Junwei Zhang, Xuewu Chang and Ping Jin, “Counting lifts of irreducible Brauer characters”, arXiv:2502.05771 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2301.12408.

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