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On Thompson's conjecture for alternating and symmetric groups

Group Theory 2015-02-12 v2

Abstract

For a finite group GG denote by N(G)N(G) the set of conjugesy class sizes of GG. We show that every finite group GG with the property N(G)=N(Altn),n>4N(G)=N(Alt_n), n>4 or N(G)=N(Symn),n>22N(G)=N(Sym_n), n>22 is non-solvable.

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@article{arxiv.1502.02978,
  title  = {On Thompson's conjecture for alternating and symmetric groups},
  author = {Ilya B. Gorshkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02978},
  year   = {2015}
}
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