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CONJUGACY CLASS SIZES IN FINITE GROUPS

Part of: Representation theory of groups Structure and classification of infinite or finite groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

AVINOAM MANN
AVINOAM MANN*
Affiliation:
Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (email: mann@math.huji.ac.il)
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Abstract

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We make several conjectures, and prove some results, pertaining to conjugacy classes of a given size in finite groups, especially in p-groups and 2-groups.

Keywords

conjugacy classesp-groups2-groups

MSC classification

Secondary: 20D15: Nilpotent groups, $p$-groups 20E45: Conjugacy classes

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Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , October 2008 , pp. 251 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Australian Mathematical Society

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