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More on Landau's theorem and Conjugacy Classes

Group Theory 2025-05-08 v2

Abstract

In this paper we present two new results on the number of certain conjugacy classes of a finite group. For a finite group GG, let n(G)n(G) be the maximum of kp(G)k_{p}(G) taken over all primes pp where kp(G)k_{p}(G) denotes the number of conjugacy classes of nontrivial pp-elements in GG. Using a recent theorem of Giudici, Morgan and Praeger, we prove that there exists a function f(x)f(x) with f(x)f(x) \to \infty as xx \to \infty such that n(G)f(G)n(G) \geq f(|G|) for any finite group GG. Let GG be a finite group, and let pp be a prime dividing G|G|. Let kp(G)k_{p'}(G) denote the number of conjugacy classes of elements of GG whose orders are coprime to pp. We show that either p=11p=11 and G=C112SL(2,5)G=C_{11}^2\rtimes \text{\rm SL}(2,5), or there exists a factorization p1=abp-1 = ab with aa and bb positive integers, such that kp(G)ak_{p}(G) \geq a and kp(G)bk_{p'}(G) \geq b with equalities in both cases if and only if G=CpCbG=C_p \rtimes C_b with CG(Cp)=CpC_G(C_p) = C_p.

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@article{arxiv.2406.11199,
  title  = {More on Landau's theorem and Conjugacy Classes},
  author = {Burcu Çınarcı and Thomas Michael Keller and Attila Maróti and Iulian I. Simion},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11199},
  year   = {2025}
}

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