Abstract
In 2005 Wolfgang Willems put forward a conjecture proposing a lower bound for the sum of squares of the degrees of the irreducible p-Brauer characters of a finite group G. We prove this conjecture for the prime p=2. For this we rely on the recent reduction of Willems' conjecture to a question on quasi-simple groups by Tong-Viet. We also verify the conditions of Tong-Viet for certain families of finite quasi-simple groups and odd primes. On the way we obtain lower bounds for the number of regular semisimple conjugacy classes in finite groups of Lie type.
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