Publicationes Mathematicae Banner
2018/92/1-2 (13) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2018.7942 — pp. 217-221

When every irreducible character is a constituent of a primitive permutation character

Authors: Trevor Chimpinde and Pál Hegedűs

Abstract:

Wall's theorem claims that a finite solvable group $G$ has at most $|G|-1$ maximal subgroups. A recent proof of the theorem uses a partial correspondence between maximal subgroups and irreducible characters. In this note, we characterise the extreme case of that proof: when is it true that for every irreducible character $\chi$ there exists a maximal subgroup $M<G$ such that $\chi_M$ has a principal constituent?

Keywords: primitive permutation characters, maximal subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification: 20C15, 20B15, 20D10