{ "id": "1605.08971", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-05-29T06:44:41.000Z", "updated": "2016-05-29T06:44:41.000Z", "title": "Towards the Classification of Finite Simple Groups with exactly Three or Four Supercharacter Theories", "authors": [ "Ali Reza Ashrafi", "Fatemeh Koorepazan-Moftakhar" ], "comment": "15 pages", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "A supercharacter theory for a finite group $G$ is a set of superclasses each of which is a union of conjugacy classes together with a set of sums of irreducible characters called supercharacters that together satisfy certain compatibility conditions.The aim of this paper is to give a description of some finite simple groups with exactly three or four supercharacter theories.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-05-29T06:44:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20C15", "20D15" ], "keywords": [ "finite simple groups", "supercharacter theory", "classification", "finite group", "conjugacy classes" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 15, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }