Character values of p-solvable groups on picky elements

Abstract Very recently, the first and third authors proposed a new conjecture on characters of finite groups, related to the McKay conjecture. Let p be a prime number and G a finite group. We say that a p -element $$x \in G$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>∈</mml:mo> <mml:mi>G</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> is picky in G if it is contained in a unique Sylow p -subgroup of G . The simplest formulation of this conjecture predicts the existence of a bijection between the set of irreducible characters of G that do not vanish on a picky p -element x , and the corresponding set of irreducible characters of the normalizer of the unique Sylow p -subgroup of G containing x . Moreover, this bijection is expected to satisfy several natural conditions. For example, the p -parts of the degrees of corresponding characters should coincide, and their values at x should also be suitably related. In this paper, we prove this conjecture for p -solvable groups when p is odd.