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Permutability degrees of finite groups

Group Theory 2017-09-19 v2

Abstract

Given a finite group GG, we introduce the \textit{permutability degree} of GG, as pd(G)=1G L(G)XL(G)PG(X),pd(G)=\frac{1}{|G| \ |\mathcal{L}(G)|} {\underset{X \in \mathcal{L}(G)}\sum}|P_G(X)|, where L(G)\mathcal{L}(G) is the subgroup lattice of GG and PG(X)P_G(X) the permutizer of the subgroup XX in GG, that is, the subgroup generated by all cyclic subgroups of GG that permute with XL(G)X\in \mathcal{L}(G). The number pd(G)pd(G) allows us to find some structural restrictions on GG. Successively, we investigate the relations between pd(G)pd(G), the probability of commuting subgroups sd(G)sd(G) of GG and the probability of commuting elements d(G)d(G) of GG. Proving some inequalities between pd(G)pd(G), sd(G)sd(G) and d(G)d(G), we correlate these notions.

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@article{arxiv.1511.06837,
  title  = {Permutability degrees of finite groups},
  author = {Daniele Ettore Otera and Francesco G. Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06837},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages; an Errata Corrige is present at the end

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