Giannelli's degree-preserving refinement of the McKay conjecture

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Let GG be a finite group, let pp be a prime, and let P∈Syl⁡p(G)P\in\operatorname{Syl}_p(G). Write Irr⁡p′(G)\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(G) for the irreducible complex characters of GG whose degrees are not divisible by pp. Giannelli's refinement. There should be a bijection

∗:Irr⁡p′(G)⟶Irr⁡p′(NG(P)){}^*:\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(G)\longrightarrow\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(N_G(P))

such that χ∗(1)≤χ(1)\chi^*(1)\leq\chi(1) for every χ∈Irr⁡p′(G)\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(G). This refinement would imply the sum-of-squares inequality by comparing corresponding character degrees. The source presents it as a recent conjecture and does not state a general resolution.

References

Primary source

Nguyen N. Hung, J. Miquel Martínez and Gabriel Navarro, “Sum of the squares of the p'-character degrees”, arXiv:2505.21267 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2412.16128, arXiv:2211.14237, arXiv:2106.14745, arXiv:1804.06954.

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