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Apart from its own interest the results on conjugacy classes have applications to the so- called \\(k(GV)\\)-problem, which says: Is it true that whenever \\(G\\) acts as a linear group of transformations on a finite dimensional vector space over a finite field with characteristic coprime to \\(|G|\\) that \\(k(GV)\\leq|V|\\)? An affirmative answer would imply that the number of irreducible ordinary characters \\(k(B)\\) of a \\(p\\)-block \\(B\\) of \\(G\\) of defect \\(d\\) is bounded by \\(p^d\\), a question posed by R. Brauer.   Some of the main results of the paper are: Theorem 1.2. If \\(G\\) is a subgroup of the symmetric group \\(S_d\\) then \\(k(G)\\leq 5^{d-1}\\). Actually the main claim is \\(k(G)\\leq 2^{d-1}\\) whose proof is reduced to the case that \\(G\\) is an almost simple group. The authors use here a result of O'Nan-Scott on primitive permutation groups. If \\(G\\) is a solvable subgroup of \\(S_d\\), then the bound on \\(k(G)\\) should be much better since in this case \\(|G|\\leq 24^{(d-1)/3}\\) by a known result of J. D. Dixon. Indeed the authors prove in Theorem 2.2.: If \\(d>2\\) and \\(G\\) is a solvable subgroup of \\(S_d\\), then \\(k(G)\\leq(\\sqrt{3})^{d-1}\\). The main result in section 3, Theorem 3.1 says that for a solvable group \\(G\\) with \\(|F(G)|=p^r\\) (\\(p\\) a prime, \\(r\\geq 1)\\), \\(k(G)\\leq 3^{r-1}p^r\\). The proof involves Kn\u00f6rr's affirmative answer to the \\(k(GV)\\)-problem in case of a super- solvable \\(G\\). As a consequence the authors have: If \\(B\\) is a \\(p\\)-block of defect \\(d>0\\) of a solvable group, then \\(k(B)\\leq 3^{(d-1)}/2\\) for \\(p>7\\). (Corollary 3.3).   Finally, section 4 deals with non-solvable groups and here it is not surprising that the classification of finite simple groups comes in. The crucial result is Theorem 4.2: There exists a constant \\(c\\) (independent of \\(r\\)) such that whenever \\(G\\) is a finite subgroup of \\(\\text{GL}(r,\\mathbb{C})\\), then every subgroup of \\(G/F(G)\\) has at most \\(c^{r-1}\\) conjugacy classes. Note, that for \\(G\\) solvable, \\(c=3\\) (this is Theorem 3.2). 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