Galois action on the principal block and generation of Sylow 3-subgroups

Abstract

In this paper, we prove one direction of a conjecture of Navarro-Rizo-Schaeffer Fry-Vallejo positing an algorithm to determine from the character table whether a finite group has $2$-generated Sylow $3$-subgroups. This gives further evidence of the blockwise version of the Galois-McKay conjecture (also known as the Alperin-McKay-Navarro conjecture). A key step involves proving the Isaacs-Navarro Galois conjecture for principal blocks for finite groups with a certain structure.