{ "id": "math/0304413", "version": "v1", "published": "2003-04-25T15:11:16.000Z", "updated": "2003-04-25T15:11:16.000Z", "title": "Products of characters and derived length", "authors": [ "Edith Adan-Bante" ], "comment": "12 pages, to appear J. Algebra", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "Let G be a finite solvable group and $\\chi\\in \\Irr(G)$ be a faithful character. We show that the derived length of G is bounded by a linear function of the number of distinct irreducible constituents of $\\chi\\bar{\\chi}$. We also discuss other properties of the decomposition of $\\chi\\bar{\\chi}$ into its irreducible constituents.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2003-04-25T15:11:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "derived length", "finite solvable group", "linear function", "distinct irreducible constituents" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2003math......4413A" } } }