Malle–Navarro–Tiep conjecture on Brauer characters and normal Sylow subgroups

Let GG be a finite group, let pp be a prime, and let PP be a Sylow pp-subgroup of GG. Write IBr(G)\operatorname{IBr}(G) for the set of pp-Brauer characters of GG. Malle–Navarro–Tiep conjecture. The subgroup PP is normal in GG if and only if

IBr(G)=IBr(NG(P)).|\operatorname{IBr}(G)|=|\operatorname{IBr}(\operatorname{N}_G(P))|.

This conjecture characterises normality of a Sylow subgroup through the number of Brauer characters. The paper reduces it to a question about finite simple groups and proves it for p=2p=2, while the general statement remains open.

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Zhicheng Feng, J. Miquel Martínez and Damiano Rossi, “Alperin's bound and normal Sylow subgroups”, arXiv:2502.12841 (2025).

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