Wilde's conjecture on zeros of characters and orders of elements
Let be a finite group and let . Here denotes the order of , and is the codegree of . Wilde's conjecture. If for some , then
This conjecture connects character zeros and element orders, and implies the theorem of Brauer and Nesbitt. The paper reduces it to statements about nearly simple groups and establishes strong forms in many cases, but the remaining cases require currently unavailable information on extensions of irreducible characters.
References
Primary source
Gunter Malle, Gabriel Navarro and Pham Huu Tiep, “Zeros of characters and orders of elements in finite groups”, arXiv:2605.04513 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0604337.
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