{ "id": "1904.06545", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-04-13T13:14:10.000Z", "updated": "2019-04-13T13:14:10.000Z", "title": "Groups with few $p'$-character degrees", "authors": [ "Eugenio Giannelli", "Noelia Rizo", "Mandi Schaeffer Fry" ], "categories": [ "math.GR", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "We prove a variation of Thompson's Theorem. Namely, if the first column of the character table of a finite group $G$ contains only two distinct values not divisible by a given prime number $p>3$, then $O^{pp'pp'}(G)=1$. This is done by using the classification of finite simple groups.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-04-13T13:14:10.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "character degrees", "finite simple groups", "first column", "finite group", "thompsons theorem" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }