Bounding the Fitting height of a solvable group by the number of zeros in a character table

Bounding the Fitting height of a solvable group by the number of zeros in a character table
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by Guohua Qian

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 3171-3176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06452-3

Published electronically: April 17, 2002

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In this paper, we bound the Fitting height of a solvable group by the number of zeros in a character table.

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