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Irreducible representations of odd degree

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McKay’s original observation on characters of odd degrees of finite groups is reduced to almost simple groups.

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The research of the first author is supported by the Prometeo/Generalitat Valenciana, Proyectos MTM2013-40464-P. The second author gratefully acknowledges the support of the NSF (Grant DMS-1201374) and the Simons Foundation Fellowship 305247.

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  1. Departament d’Àlgebra, Universitat de València, 46100, Burjassot, València, Spain

    Gabriel Navarro

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Pham Huu Tiep

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Part of the paper was written while the second author visited the Department of Mathematics, Harvard University. It is a pleasure to thank Harvard University for generous hospitality and stimulating environment.

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Navarro, G., Tiep, P.H. Irreducible representations of odd degree. Math. Ann. 365, 1155–1185 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-015-1334-5

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