On p-parts of Brauer character degrees and p-regular conjugacy class sizes

Abstract

Let $G$ be a finite group, $p$ a prime, and $IBr_p(G)$ the set of irreducible $p$-Brauer characters of $G$. Let $\bar e_p(G)$ be the largest integer such that $p^{\bar e_p(G)}$ divides $\chi(1)$ for some $\chi \in IBr_p(G)$. We show that $|G:O_p(G)|_p \leq p^{k \bar e_p(G)}$ for an explicitly given constant $k$. We also study the analogous problem for the $p$-parts of the conjugacy class sizes of $p$-regular elements of finite groups.