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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
R. Brauer not only laid the foundations of modular representation theory of finite groups, he also raised a number of questions and made conjectures (see [1], [2] for instance) which since then have attracted the interest of many people working in the field and continue to guide the research efforts to a good extent. One of these is known as the “Height zero conjecture”. It may be stated as follows:
CONJECTURE. Let B be a p-block of the finite group G. All irreducible ordinary characters of G belonging to B are of height 0 if and only if a defect group of B is abelian.