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This paper provides a bridge between two active areas of research, the spectrum (set of element orders) and the power graph of a finite group. The order sequence of a finite group $G$ is the list of orders of elements of the group, arranged…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Peter J. Cameron , Hiranya Kishore Dey

The well-known Landau's theorem states that, for any positive integer $k$, there are finitely many isomorphism classes of finite groups with exactly $k$ (conjugacy) classes. We study variations of this theorem for $p$-regular classes as…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Alexander Moreto , Hung Ngoc Nguyen

For every prime $p$, we construct an infinite countable group that contains precisely $p-1$ elements which are not $p$th powers.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-06 S. V. Ivanov

In this paper we study prime graphs of finite groups. The prime graph of a finite group $G$, also known as the Gruenberg-Kegel graph, is the graph with vertex set {primes dividing $|G|$} and an edge $p$-$q$ if and only if there exists an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Chris Florez , Jonathan Higgins , Kyle Huang , Thomas Michael Keller , Dawei Shen , Yong Yang

The genus spectrum of a finite group $G$ is a set of integers $g \geq 2$ such that $G$ acts on a closed orientable compact surface $\Sigma_g$ of genus $g$ preserving the orientation. In this paper we complete the study of spectrum sets of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Siddhartha Sarkar

For any prime p we consider the density of elements in the multiplicative group of the finite field F_p having order, respectively index, congruent to a(mod d). We compute these densities on average, where the average is taken over all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pieter Moree

We show that if the Sylow $p$-subgroup of a finite group $G$ is of order $p$, then the normalized unit group of the integral group ring of $G$ contains a normalized unit of order $pq$ if and only if $G$ contains an element of order $pq$,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Mauricio Caicedo , Leo Margolis

Let G be a locally compact Hausdorff group in which every element is of finite order, and let P(G) denote the class of all regular probability measures on G. In this note, it is observed that a characterization of algebraically regular…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 M N N Namboodiri

Given a positive integer $u$ and a simple algebraic group $G$ defined over an algebraically closed field $K$ of characteristic $p$, we derive properties about the subvariety $G_{[u]}$ of $G$ consisting of elements of $G$ of order dividing…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Claude Marion

For a finite group $G$, let $d(G)$ denote the minimal number of elements required to generate $G$. In this paper, given a finite almost simple group $G$ and any maximal subgroup $H$ of $G$, we determine a precise upper bound for $d(H)$. In…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Andrea Lucchini , Claude Marion , Gareth Tracey

We obtain upper bounds on the composition length of a finite permutation group in terms of the degree and the number of orbits, and analogous bounds for primitive, quasiprimitive and semiprimitive groups. Similarly, we obtain upper bounds…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-15 S. P. Glasby , Cheryl E. Praeger , Kyle Rosa , Gabriel Verret

For a finite group $G$, the representation dimension is the smallest integer realizable as the degree of a complex faithful representation of $G$. In this article, we compute representation dimension for some $p$-groups, their direct…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Gurleen Kaur , Amit Kulshrestha , Anupam Singh

Let $p \geqslant 3$ be a prime number and let $n \geqslant 0$ be an integer such that $p-1$ divides $n.$ In this short note we construct a family of $(p,n)$-gonal Riemann surfaces of maximal genus $2np+(p-1)^2$ with more than one…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Sebastián Reyes-Carocca

We study finite groups $G$ with the property that for any subgroup $M$ maximal in $G$ whose order is divisible by all the prime divisors of $|G|$, $M$ is supersolvable. We show that any nonabelian simple group can occur as a composition…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Alexander Moretó

Let $p$ be a prime and $G$ a subgroup of $GL_d(p)$. We define $G$ to be $p$-exceptional if it has order divisible by $p$, but all its orbits on vectors have size coprime to $p$. We obtain a classification of $p$-exceptional linear groups.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Michael Giudici , Martin W. Liebeck , Cheryl E. Praeger , Jan Saxl , Pham Huu Tiep

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

We establish new characterizations of primitive elements and free factors in free groups, which are based on the distributions they induce on finite groups. For every finite group $G$, a word $w$ in the free group on $k$ generators induces…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Doron Puder , Ori Parzanchevski

In this thesis we study the following property of a finite group G: the minimal number n such that G embeds in Sn. We start with an explicit formula for the number n for abelian groups. Then, we study the behavior of this group property in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Oren Becker

We consider finite dimensional representations of the dihedral group $D_{2p}$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic two where $p$ is an odd integer and study the degrees of generating and separating polynomials in the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Martin Kohls , Müfit Sezer

The representation dimension of a finite group G is the smallest positive integer m for which there exists an embedding of G in GL_m(C). In this paper we find the largest value of representation dimensions, as Granges over all groups of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-22 Shane Cernele , Masoud Kamgarpour , Zinovy Reichstein