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Landau's Theorem on conjugacy classes for normal subgroups

Group Theory 2024-02-13 v1

Abstract

Landau's theorem on conjugacy classes asserts that there are only finitely many finite groups, up to isomorphism, with exactly kk conjugacy classes for any positive integer kk. We show that, for any positive integers nn and ss, there exists only a finite number of finite groups GG, up to isomorphism, having a normal subgroup NN of index nn which contains exactly ss non-central GG-conjugacy classes. We provide upper bounds for the orders of GG and NN, which are used by using GAP to classify all finite groups with normal subgroups having a small index and few GG-classes. We also study the corresponding problems when we only take into account the set of GG-classes of prime-power order elements contained in a normal subgroup.

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@article{arxiv.2402.06708,
  title  = {Landau's Theorem on conjugacy classes for normal subgroups},
  author = {Antonio Beltrán and María José Felipe and Carmen Melchor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06708},
  year   = {2024}
}
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