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Character Tables and Sylow Subgroups Revisited

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Suppose that G is a finite group. A classical and difficult problem is to determine how much the character table knows about the local structure of G and vice versa.

Research supported by the Prometeo/Generalitat Valenciana, Proyecto MTM2016-76196-P and FEDER funds.

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Navarro, G. (2018). Character Tables and Sylow Subgroups Revisited. In: Sastry, N., Yadav, M. (eds) Group Theory and Computation. Indian Statistical Institute Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2047-7_10

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