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Thompson's conjecture for alternating group

Group Theory 2016-11-18 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a finite group, and let N(G)N(G) be the set of sizes of its conjugacy classes. We show that if a finite group GG has trivial center and N(G)N(G) equals to N(Altn)N(Alt_n) or N(Symn)N(Sym_n) for n23n\geq 23, then GG has a composition factor isomorphic to an alternating group AltkAlt_k such that knk\leq n and the half-interval (k,n](k, n] contains no primes. As a corollary, we prove the Thompson's conjecture for simple alternating groups.

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@article{arxiv.1611.05526,
  title  = {Thompson's conjecture for alternating group},
  author = {Ilya Gorshkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05526},
  year   = {2016}
}
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