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Derived lengths and character degrees

Author(s): Mark L. Lewis
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 1915-1921.
MSC (1991): Primary 20C15
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Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite solvable group. Assume that the degree graph of $G$ has exactly two connected components that do not contain $1$. Suppose that one of these connected components contains the subset $\{ a_{1}, \dots , a_{n} \}$, where $a_{i}$ and $a_{j}$ are coprime when $i \not = j$. Then the derived length of $G$ is less than or equal to $|\operatorname{cd}(G)|-n+1$.


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Additional Information:

Mark L. Lewis
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Email: lewis@mcs.kent.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04391-3
PII: S 0002-9939(98)04391-3
Received by editor(s): December 16, 1996
Communicated by: Ronald M. Solomon
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society


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