Fitting Height and Diameter of Character Degree Graphs

Author: Paolo Morresi Zuccari Claudio  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 0092-7872

Source: Communications in Algebra, Vol.41, Iss.8, 2013-08, pp. : 2869-2878

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Abstract

Let a graph Γ have bounded Fitting height (i.e., there is a bound on the Fitting heights of those groups whose character degree graph is Γ) and G be any solvable group with character degree graph Γ and Fitting height h(G). We improve Moretò's bound by proving that if no vertex in Γ is adjacent to every other one, then h(G) ≤4, else h(G) ≤6. As a consequence, if a solvable group G has character degree graph with diameter 3, then h(G) ≤4. Moreover, G has at most one non-abelian normal Sylow subgroup in this case.