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Commuting involutions and elementary abelian subgroups of simple groups

Group Theory 2020-12-17 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Motivated in part by representation theoretic questions, we prove that if G is a finite quasi-simple group, then there exists an elementary abelian subgroup of G that intersects every conjugacy class of involutions of G.

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@article{arxiv.2012.08693,
  title  = {Commuting involutions and elementary abelian subgroups of simple groups},
  author = {Robert M. Guralnick and Geoffrey R. Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.08693},
  year   = {2020}
}
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