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Vol. 99(113), pp. 257–264 (2016)

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A CHARACTERIZATION OF $PGL(2,p^n)$ BY SOME IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEX CHARACTER DEGREES

Somayeh Heydari, Neda Ahanjideh

Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahre-kord University, Shahre-kord, Iran

Abstract: For a finite group $G$, let $\operatorname{cd}(G)$ be the set of irreducible complex character degrees of $G$ forgetting multiplicities and $X_1(G)$ be the set of all irreducible complex character degrees of $G$ counting multiplicities. Suppose that $p$ is a prime number. We prove that if $G$ is a finite group such that $|G|=|\operatorname{PGL}(2,p)|$, $p\in\operatorname{cd}(G)$ and $\max(\operatorname{cd}(G))=p+1$, then $G\cong\operatorname{PGL}(2,p), SL(2,p)$ or $\operatorname{PSL}(2,p)\times A$, where $A$ is a cyclic group of order $(2,p-1)$. Also, we show that if $G$ is a finite group with $X_1(G)=X_1(\operatorname{PGL}(2,p^n))$, then $G\cong\operatorname{PGL}(2,p^n)$. In particular, this implies that $\operatorname{PGL}(2,p^n)$ is uniquely determined by the structure of its complex group algebra.

Keywords: irreducible character degree; classification theorem of the finite simple group; complex group algebras

Classification (MSC2000): 20C15; 20E99

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