Abelianness conjecture for commutators of normal subgroups with two minimal invariant character degrees

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Let NN be a normal subgroup of the group GG. The set of minimal GG-invariant character degrees of NN is

\McdGN={θ^(1)θIrr(N)}.\Mcd G N = \{\widehat{\theta}(1)\mid \theta \in \operatorname{Irr}(N)\}.

Commutator abelianness conjecture. If \McdGN={1,f}\Mcd G N=\{1,f\} for some positive integer ff, then the commutator subgroup

[N,G][N,G]

is abelian.

The paper notes that NN' is known to be abelian under these hypotheses, but conjectures that the stronger conclusion [N,G][N,G] is abelian also holds.

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Primary source

María José Felipe, Iris Gilabert and Lucia Sanus, “On degrees of minimal invariant characters”, arXiv:2606.14333 (2026).

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