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We define the notion of a semicharacter of a group G : A function from the group to C*, whose restriction to any abelian subgroup is a homomorphism. We conjecture that for any finite group, the order of the group of semicharacters is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Gil Alon

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

In this paper we consider two functions related to the arithmetic and geometric means of element orders of a finite group, showing that certain lower bounds on such functions strongly affect the group structure. In particular, for every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Valentina Grazian , Carmine Monetta , Marialaura Noce

A finite group $G$ admits an {\em oriented regular representation} if there exists a Cayley digraph of $G$ such that it has no digons and its automorphism group is isomorphic to $G$. Let $m$ be a positive integer. In this paper, we extend…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Jia-Li Du , Yan-Quan Feng , Sejeong Bang

A (left) Engel sink of an element g of a group G is a subset containing all sufficiently long commutators [...[[x,g],g],...,g], where x ranges over G. We prove that if p is a prime and G a finite group in which, for some positive integer m,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Lucas Dal Berto , Jhone Caldeira , Pavel Shumyatsky

Let $n>0$ be an integer and $\mathcal{X}$ be a class of groups. We say that a group $G$ satisfies the condition $(\mathcal{X},n)$ whenever in every subset with $n+1$ elements of $G$ there exist distinct elements $x,y$ such that $<x,y>$ is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alireza Abdollahi , Aliakbar Mohammadi Hassanabadi

We investigate the extent to which the exchange relation holds in finite groups $G$. We define a new equivalence relation $\equiv_{\mathrm{m}}$, where two elements are equivalent if each can be substituted for the other in any generating…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Peter J. Cameron , Andrea Lucchini , Colva M. Roney-Dougal

For a finite group $G$ and an element $x\in G$, the subset $$ nil_G(x)=\{y\in G \mid <x,y>~~ is ~~ nilpotent\}$$ is called nilpotentizer of $x$ in $G$. In this paper, we give two solvabilty criteria for a finite group by the structure and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-27 N. Ahmadkhah , M. Zarrin

Let ${\rm GK}(G)$ be the prime graph associated with a finite group $G$ and $D(G)$ be the degree pattern of $G$. A finite group $G$ is said to be $k$-fold OD-characterizable if there exist exactly $k$ non-isomorphic groups $H$ such that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 B. Akbari , A. R. Moghaddamfar

Let $G$ be a group. A subset $F \subset G$ is called irreducibly faithful if there exists an irreducible unitary representation $\pi$ of $G$ such that $\pi(x) \neq \mathrm{id}$ for all $x \in F \smallsetminus \{e\}$. Otherwise $F$ is called…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace , Pierre de la Harpe

For an irreducible complex character \(\chi\) of a finite group \(G\), the \emph{codegree} of \(\chi\) is defined as the ratio \(|G : \ker(\chi)| / \chi(1)\), where \(\ker(\chi)\) represents the kernel of \(\chi\). In this paper, we provide…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yu Zeng , Mehdi Ghaffarzadeh , Mohsen Ghasemi , Dongfang Yang

A group $G$ is called residually finite if for every non-trivial element $g \in G$, there exists a finite quotient $Q$ of $G$ such that the element $g$ is non-trivial in the quotient as well. Instead of just investigating whether a group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Jonas Deré , Joren Matthys

Let $G$ be a finite group and \( M \) be a maximal subgroup of \( G \). We call every irreducible constituent \( \chi \) of \( (1_M)^G \) a \( \mathcal{P} \)-character of \( G \) with respect to \( M \). In this paper, we prove that all…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Jiakuan Lu , hangyang Meng

Let $G$ be a finite group and $m \geq 2$ a positive integer. We say that $G$ admits an \emph{oriented $m$-semiregular representation} (abbreviated as OmSR) if there exists a $m$-Cayley digraph $\Gamma$ over $G$ such that $\Gamma$ is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Songnian Xu , Dein Wong , Wenhao Zhen

A numerical semigroup is an additive subsemigroup of the natural numbers that contains zero and has finite complement. A numerical semigroup is irreducible if it cannot be written as an intersection of numerical semigroups properly…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Pedro Garcia-Sanchez , Christopher O'Neill

The paper concerns a certain subcategory of the category of representations for a semisimple algebraic group $G$ in characteristic $p$, which arise from the semisimple modules for the corresponding quantum group at a $p$-th root of unity.…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Hankyung Ko

Fix a prime $p$ and an integer $m$ with $p> m \geq 2$. Define the family of finite groups \[ G_n :=SL_m (\mathbb{Z}/p^{n}\mathbb{Z}) \] for $n=1,2,... $. We will prove that there exist two positive constants $C$ and $d$ such that for any…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oren Dinai

A perfect code in a graph $\Gamma = (V, E)$ is a subset $C$ of $V$ such that no two vertices in $C$ are adjacent and every vertex in $V \setminus C$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. A subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Binbin Li , Jingjian Li , Wei Meng , Hao Yu

We study the property $P_{\text {naive }}$ of mapping class groups of surfaces of infinite type, that is, for any finite collection of non-trivial elements $h_{1},h_{2}, \cdots, h_{n}$, there exists another element $g\neq 1$ of infinite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Tianyi Lou

Let $G$ be a finite group. Denoting by ${\rm{cd}}(G)$ the set of the degrees of the irreducible complex characters of $G$, we consider the {\it character degree graph} of $G$: this is the (simple, undirected) graph whose vertices are the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-16 S. Dolfi , E. Pacifici , L. Sanus