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Probability that a given element of a group is a commutator of any two randomly chosen group elements

Group Theory 2018-07-10 v1

Abstract

We study the probability of a given element, in the commutator subgroup of a group, to be equal to a commutator of two randomly chosen group elements, and compute explicit formulas for calculating this probability for some interesting classes of groups having only two different conjugacy class sizes. We re-prove the fact that if GG is a finite group such that the set of its conjugacy class sizes is {1,p}\{1, p\}, where pp is a prime integer, then GG is isoclinic (in the sense of P. Hall) to an extraspecial pp-group.

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@article{arxiv.1212.4306,
  title  = {Probability that a given element of a group is a commutator of any two randomly chosen group elements},
  author = {Rajat K. Nath and Manoj K. Yadav},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4306},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages