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A countable group is residually finite if every nontrivial element can act nontrivially on a finite set. When a group fails to be residually finite, we might want to measure how drastically it fails - it could be that only finitely many…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Nic Brody , Kasia Jankiewicz

For any irreducible character $\chi$ of a finite group $G$, let $\theta(\chi)$ denote the proportion of elements $g\in G$ for which $\chi(g)$ is either zero or a root of unity. Then for any $L\in[1/2,1]$ and any $\epsilon>0$, there exists…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Alexander R. Miller

We characterize the group property of being with infinite conjugacy classes (or icc, i.e. \not= 1 and of which all conjugacy classes except 1 are infinite) for finite extensions of group.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Philippe Preaux

We provide structural criteria for some finite factorised groups $G = AB$ when the conjugacy class sizes in $G$ of certain $\pi$-elements in $A\cup B$ are either $\pi$-numbers or $\pi'$-numbers, for a set of primes $\pi$. In particular, we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 M. J. Felipe , A. Martínez-Pastor , V. M. Ortiz-Sotomayor

Let G be a finite simple group of Lie type. In this paper we study characters of G that vanish at the non-semisimple elements and whose degree is equal to the order of a maximal unipotent subgroup of G. Such characters can be viewed as a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-18 M. A. Pellegrini , A. E. Zalesski

We classify the finite groups $G$ which satisfies the condition that every complex irreducible character,whose degree's square doesn't divide the index of its kernel in $G$, lies in the same Galois conjugacy class.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Yu Zeng , Dongfang Yang

In this paper we study arithmetical and structural features of a finite group that possesses exactly two conjugacy class sizes that are composite numbers.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Carmine Monetta , Víctor Sotomayor

We consider finite groups having a conjugacy class that is the difference of two normal subgroups. That is, suppose $G$ is a group and $M$ and $N$ are normal subgroups so that $N < M$, and suppose that there is an element $g \in G$ so that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Mark L. Lewis , Lucia Morotti , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus , Hung P. Tong-Viet

In this paper, we study the structures of finite groups using some arithmetic conditions on the sizes of real conjugacy classes. We prove that a finite group is solvable if the prime graph on the real class sizes of the group is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Hung P. Tong-Viet

For a character $\chi$ of a finite group $G$, the number cod$(\chi):=|G:\mathrm{ker}(\chi)|/\chi(1)$ is called the codegree of $\chi$.In this paper, we give a solvability criterion for a finite group $G$ depending on the minimum of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Dongfang Yang , Yu Zeng , Heng Lv

Given a group $G$, we write $g^G$ for the conjugacy class of $G$ containing the element $g$. A theorem of B. H. Neumann states that if $G$ is a group in which all conjugacy classes are finite with bounded size, then the commutator subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Pavel Shumyatsky

We call a group $G$ {\it algorithmically finite} if no algorithm can produce an infinite set of pairwise distinct elements of $G$. We construct examples of recursively presented infinite algorithmically finite groups and study their…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-09 A. Myasnikov , D. Osin

A natural question for groups $H$ is which data can be detected in its finite quotients. A subset $X \subset H$ is called separable if for all $h\in H \setminus X$, there exists an epimorphism $\varphi$ to a finite group $Q$ such that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Jonas Deré , Lukas Vandeputte

Following the literature, a group $G$ is called a group of central type if $G$ has an irreducible character that vanishes on $G\setminus Z(G)$. Motivated by this definition, we say that a character $\chi\in {\rm Irr}(G)$ has central type if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Shawn T. Burkett , Mark L. Lewis

An element $g$ of a group is called {\em reversible} if it is conjugate in the group to its inverse. In this paper we review some results about the structure of groups involving the reversible elements and we pose some questions about…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Anthony G. O'Farrell

We characterize the group property of being with infinite conjugacy classes (or icc, i.e. in which all conjugacy classes beside 1 are infinite) for split extensions of groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Philippe Preaux

If chi is an irreducible character of a finite group G then the support of chi is the subset of G on which chi does not vanish. In this note, we study the supports of characters of certain classes of p-groups (a p-group is a finite group of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Tom Wilde

The Divisibility Graph of a finite group $G$ has vertex set the set of conjugacy class lengths of non-central elements in $G$ and two vertices are connected by an edge if one divides the other. We determine the connected components of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Adeleh Abdolghafourian , Mohammad A. Iranmanesh , Alice C. Niemeyer

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

If $G$ is a finite classical group, linear or unitary in any characteristic, and orthogonal in odd characteristic, we give an approximate formula for $\chi(g)$ in which the error term is much smaller than the estimate, when $g\in G$ is an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Michael Larsen , Pham Huu Tiep