The aim of this paper is to classify the finite nonsolvable groups in which every irreducible character of even degree vanishes on at most two conjugacy classes. As a corollary, it is shown that L2(2 f ) are the only nonsolvable groups in which every irreducible character of even degree vanishes on just one conjugacy class.

In the Hopf algebra of symmetric functions, Sym, the basis of Schur functions is distinguished since every Schur function is isomorphic to an irreducible character of a symmetric group under the Frobenius characteristic map. In this note we show that in the Hopf algebra of noncommutative symmetric functions, NSym, of which Sym is a quotient, the recently discovered basis of noncommutative Schur...

Let G be a finite group. We denote by ρ(G) the set of primes which divide some character degrees of G and by σ(G) the largest number of distinct primes which divide a single character degree of G. We show that |ρ(G)| ≤ 2σ(G) + 1 when G is an almost simple group. For arbitrary finite groups G, we show that |ρ(G)| ≤ 2σ(G) + 1 provided that σ(G) ≤ 2.

We describe irreducible representations and character formulas of the Renner monoids for reductive monoids, which generalizes the Munn-Solomon representation theory of rook monoids to any Renner monoids. The type map and polytope associated with reductive monoids play a crucial role in our work. It turns out that the irreducible representations of certain parabolic subgroups of the Weyl groups ...

‎We first give bounds for domains where the unitarizabile subquotients can show up in the parabolically induced representations of classical $p$-adic groups‎. ‎Roughly‎, ‎they can show up only if the‎ ‎central character of the inducing irreducible cuspidal representation is dominated by the‎ ‎square root of the modular character of the minimal parabolic subgroup‎. ‎For unitarizable subquotients...

Let $G$ be a finite group and $cd^*(G)$ be the set of nonlinear irreducible character degrees of  $G$. Suppose that $rho(G)$ denotes the set of primes dividing some element of $cd^*(G)$. The bipartite divisor graph for the set of character degrees which is denoted by $B(G)$, is a bipartite graph whose vertices are the disjoint union of $rho(G)$ and $cd^*(G)$, and a vertex $p in rho(G)$ is conne...