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Several classical theorems on character degrees are revisited from the point of view of the real characters.

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

    Gabriel Navarro & Lucia Sanus

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Pham Huu Tiep

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

    Pham Huu Tiep

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Correspondence to Gabriel Navarro.

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The research of the first two authors is partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MTM2004-06067-C02-01).

The third author gratefully acknowledges the support of the NSF (grant DMS-0600967)

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Navarro, G., Sanus, L. & Tiep, P.H. Real characters and degrees. Isr. J. Math. 171, 157–173 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-009-0045-6

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