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We study groups $G$ where the $\varphi$-conjugacy class $[e]_{\varphi}=\{g^{-1}\varphi(g)~|~g\in G\}$ of the unit element is a subgroup of $G$ for every automorphism $\varphi$ of $G$. If $G$ has $n$ generators, then we prove that the $k$-th…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Daciberg Gonçalves , Timur Nasybullov

For any $n$ nonnegative integer a family of groups, denoted by $ \mathcal{D}_n $, was introduce by Bianchi et al., as the collection of all finite groups with exactly $n$ conjugacy classes of nontrivial, non self-normalizing subgroups. It…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Maria Loukaki

We show that every non-decreasing function $f\colon \mathbb N\to \mathbb N$ bounded from above by $a^n$ for some $a\ge 1$ can be realized (up to a natural equivalence) as the conjugacy growth function of a finitely generated group. We also…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-31 M. Hull , D. Osin

In this paper we introduce and study the conjugacy ratio of a finitely generated group, which is the limit at infinity of the quotient of the conjugacy and standard growth functions. We conjecture that the conjugacy ratio is $0$ for all…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Laura Ciobanu , Charles Garnet Cox , Armando Martino

The conjugator length function of a finitely generated group $\Gamma$ gives the optimal upper bound on the length of a shortest conjugator for any pair of conjugate elements in the ball of radius $n$ in the Cayley graph of $\Gamma$. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Martin R. Bridson , Timothy R. Riley

Given two conjugate mapping classes f and g, we produce a conjugating element w such that |w| < K(|f|+|g|), where |.| denotes the word metric with respect to a fixed generating set, and K is a constant depending only on the generating set.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-11-06 Jing Tao

Consider the following classes of pairs consisting of a group and a finite collection of subgroups: $\mathcal{C}= \left\{ (G,\mathcal H) \mid \text{$\mathcal{H}$ is hyperbolically embedded in $G$} \right\}$ and $ \mathcal{D}= \left\{…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Hadi Bigdely , Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza

Let $G\in\{p,q\}^*$ be a finite group with trivial center, where $p,q\in\pi(G)$ and $p>q>5$. In the present paper it is proved that $|G|_{\{p,q\}}=|G||_{\{p,q\}}$; in particular $C_G(g)\cap C_G(h)=1$ for every $p$-element $g$ and every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-13 I. B. Gorshkov

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let cs$(G)$ be the set of conjugacy class sizes of $G$. Recalling that an element $g$ of $G$ is called a \emph{vanishing element} if there exists an irreducible character of $G$ taking the value $0$ on $g$, we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Mariagrazia Bianchi , Rachel D. Camina , Mark L. Lewis , Emanuele Pacifici

A BFC-group is a group in which all conjugacy classes are finite with bounded size. In 1954 B. H. Neumann discovered that if G is a BFC-group then the derived group G' is finite. Let w=w(x_1,\dots,x_n) be a multilinear commutator. We study…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Eloisa Detomi , Marta Morigi , Pavel Shumyatsky

We prove the Arad-Herzog conjecture for various families of finite simple groups- if A and B are nontrivial conjugacy classes, then AB is not a conjugacy class. We also prove that if G is a finite simple group of Lie type and A and B are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Robert M. Guralnick , Gunter Malle , Pham Huu Tiep

In this note, we determine the finite groups whose poset of conjugacy classes of subgroups has breaking points. This leads to a new characterization of the generalized quaternion $2$-groups. A generalization of this property is also…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Marius Tărnăuceanu

In this paper, we derive an asymptotic formula for the number of conjugacy classes of elements in a class of statistically convex-cocompact actions with contracting elements. Denote by $\mathcal C(o, n)$ (resp. $\mathcal C'(o, n)$) the set…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Ilya Gekhtman , Wen-yuan Yang

In 1968, John Thompson proved that a finite group $G$ is solvable if and only if every $2$-generator subgroup of $G$ is solvable. In this paper, we prove that solvability of a finite group $G$ is guaranteed by a seemingly weaker condition:…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Silvio Dolfi , Marcel Herzog , Cheryl E. Praeger

In this paper we classify the finite groups satisfying the following property $P_4$: their orders of representatives are set-wise relatively prime for any 4 distinct non-central conjugacy classes.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xingzhong You , Guohua Qian , Wujie Shi

Let $k(G)$ be the number of conjugacy classes of finite groups $G$ and $\pi_e(G)$ be the set of the orders of elements in $G$. Then there exists a non-negative integer $k$ such that $k(G)=|\pi_e(G)|+k$. We call such groups to be $co(k)$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xianglin Du , Wujie Shi

In this paper we show that the irreducible representations of a finite inverse semigroup $S$ over an algebraically closed field $F$ are in bijection with the conjugacy classes of $S$ if the characteristic of $F$ is zero or a prime number…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Zhenheng Li , Zhuo Li

Let $k'(G)$ and $L(G)$ be the number of conjugacy classes of subgroups and the subgroup lattice of a finite group $G$, respectively. Our objective is to study some aspects related to the ratios $d'(G)=\frac{k'(G)}{|L(G)|}$ and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Mihai-Silviu Lazorec , Marius Tărnăuceanu

Let $G$ be a finite non-abelian simple group, $C$ a non-identity conjugacy class of $G$, and $\Gamma_C$ the Cayley graph of $G$ based on $C \cup C^{-1}$. Our main result shows that in any such graph, there is an involution at bounded…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Daniele Dona , Martin W. Liebeck , Kamilla Rekvényi

For every non-nilpotent finite group $G$, there exists at least one proper subgroup $M$ such that $G$ is the setwise product of a finite number of conjugates of $M$. We define $\gamma_{\text{cp}}\left( G\right) $ to be the smallest number…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Dan Levy , Martino Garonzi