Conjugacy class sizes in arithmetic progression

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2020-0046MaRDI QIDQ2208325zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mariagrazia Bianchi, S. P. Glasby, Cheryl E. Praeger

Publication date 2 November 2020

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03906

zbMATH Keywords

class sizesconjugacy classFrobenius groupnilpotent group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) General structure theorems for groups (20E34) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Abstract: Let $mcs(G)$ denote the set of conjugacy class sizes of a group $G$, and let ${mcs}^{\ast }(G)=mcs(G)setminus1$ be the sizes of non-central classes. We prove three results. We classify all finite groups $G$ with $mcs(G)=a,a+d,dots,a+rd$ an arithmetic progression with $rgeqslant2$. (We show that $mcs(G)=1,2,3$.) Our most substantial result classifies all $G$ with ${mcs}^{\ast }(G)=2,4,6$. Finally, we classify all groups $G$ whose largest two non-central conjugacy class sizes are coprime. (Here it is not obvious but it is true that ${mcs}^{\ast }(G)$ has two elements, and so is an arithmetic progression.)

Review text

The reviewer wishes to report here, in loving memory of his beloved friend Carlo Casolo, the beginning of the paper [\textit{M. Bianchi} et al., Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova 106, 255--260 (2001; Zbl 1146.20305)]: ``Let \(G\) be a finite group and let \[ 1=k_{0} < k_{1} < \dots < k_{r} \] be all the distinct sizes of its conjugacy classes. The arithmetical nature of this sequence is far from being arbitrary, and clearly it has to enjoy rather special, if not yet understood, properties. Often, imposing hypotheses on the sequence, or just on some of its members, yields strong restrictions on the structure of the group \(G\). Define \(\mathtt{cs}(G)=\{1,k_{1}, \ldots, k_{r}\}\) and \(\mathtt{cs}^{\ast}(G)=\mathtt{cs}(G) \setminus \{1\}\). The purpose of the article under review is threefold. (1) It provides a classification of finite groups \(G\) for which \(\mathtt{cs}(G)\) is an arithmetic progression, \(r \geq 2\). (2) It completely describes finite groups \(G\) such that \(\mathtt{cs}^{\ast}(G)=\{2,4,6\}\). (3) It refines some results obtained in the aforementioned paper by Bianchi et al. (the first author of the article under review) [loc. cit.] and [\textit{S. Dolfi} and the reviewer, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 41, No. 5, 916--926 (2009; Zbl 1188.20021)].

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