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Gabriel Navarro Ortega

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Gabriel Navarro Ortega (born in Sueca, Valencia) is a Spanish mathematician specializing in group theory, and representation theory of finite groups. Currently he is a full professor at the Universitat de València.

Career Navarro received his PhD at the Universitat de València in 1989. He held a Fulbright post doctoral position at MSRI and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of I. M. Isaacs. He is fellow of the American Mathematical Society and Distinguished Speaker of the European Mathematical Society. In 2024 together with G. Malle, A. Schaeffer-Fry and P. H. Tiep, he completed the proof of Brauer's Height Zero Conjecture. He also extended the McKay Conjecture (with congruences of degrees modulo p with I. M. Isaacs, and with Galois automorphisms: the Galois-McKay conjecture). Together with I. M. Isaacs and G. Malle, he reduced the McKay conjecture to a question of finite simple groups establishing the path for its final solution by M. Cabanes and B. Späth in 2024. This reduction inspired several other reductions, such as the Alperin Weight Conjecture (with P. H. Tiep) or the Alperin-McKay conjecture (by B. Späth).

Selected publications with G. Malle, A. Schaeffer-Fry, P. H. Tiep: Brauer's Height Zero Conjecture, Ann. of Math. 200 (2024), 557–608. doi:10.4007/annals.2024.200.2.4 with P. H. Tiep: The fields of values of characters of degree not divisible by p. Forum Math. Pi 9 (2021), vol 9, 1-28. doi:10.1017/fmp.2021.1 Character theory and the McKay conjecture. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 175. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018. doi:10.1017/9781108552790 with Britta Spath: On Brauer's Height Zero Conjecture, J. Eur. Math. Soc. 16, 695-747 (2014). doi:10.4171/JEMS/444 with P. H. Tiep: Characters of relative p'-degree with respect to a normal subgroup, Ann. of Math.178 (3) (2013), 1135–1171. doi:10.4007/annals.2013.178.3.7 with P. H. Tiep: A reduction theorem for the Alperin weight conjecture. Invent. Math. 184 (2011), no. 3, 529–565. doi:10.1007/s00222-010-0295-2 with I. M. Isaacs and G. Malle: A reduction theorem for the McKay conjecture. Invent. Math. 170 (2007), no. 1, 33–101. doi:10.1007/s00222-007-0057-y The McKay conjecture and Galois automorphisms. Ann. of Math. (2) 160 (2004), no. 3, 1129–1140. doi:10.4007/annals.2004.160.1129 with I. M. Isaacs: New refinements of the McKay conjecture for arbitrary finite groups. Ann. of Math. (2) 156 (2002), no. 1, 333–344. doi:10.2307/3597192 Characters and blocks of finite groups. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 250. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511526015

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