(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801 Urbana, USA;(2) Present address: University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, 730 East Beach Boulevard, 39560 Long Beach, MS, USA
Abstract:
Let p be a prime number.
Let G be a finite
p-group and
. Denote by
the complex conjugate of
. Assume that
. We show that the number of
distinct irreducible constituents of the product
is at least
.
Received: 17 March 2003