The degree-monotone McKay bijection conjecture

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Let GG be a finite group, let pp be a prime number, and let PP be a Sylow pp-subgroup of GG. Write NG(P)N_G(P) for the normalizer of PP in GG, and let Irr⁡p′(G)\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(G) denote the set of irreducible characters of GG whose degrees are coprime to pp. Degree-monotone McKay bijection conjecture. There exists a bijection

ε:Irr⁡p′(G)→Irr⁡p′(NG(P))\varepsilon:\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(G)\rightarrow\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(N_G(P))

such that ε(χ)(1)≤χ(1)\varepsilon(\chi)(1)\leq\chi(1) for all χ∈Irr⁡p′(G)\chi\in\operatorname{Irr}_{p'}(G). This strengthens the McKay conjecture by requiring a bijection that does not increase character degrees; the paper proposes this refinement and proves it for symmetric groups.

References

Primary source

Eugenio Giannelli, “McKay bijections and character degrees”, arXiv:2507.01730 (2026).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1906.11719, arXiv:1711.00642, arXiv:0906.1820.

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