Enumerating finite class-2-nilpotent groups on 2 generators.

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2009.10.024MaRDI QIDQ1046532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Voll

Publication date 22 December 2009

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1355, https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/69449/1/voll02nov09.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet generating functionsenumerationEuler productsfinite \(p\)-groupsfinite nilpotent groupsPORC conjecturezeta functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Dirichlet series, exponential series and other series in one complex variable (30B50)

Abstract: We compute the numbers g(n,2,2) of nilpotent groups of order n, of class at most 2 generated by at most 2 generators, by giving an explicit formula for the Dirichlet generating function sum_{n=1}^infty g(n,2,2)n^{-s}.

Review text

Let \(g(n,2,2)\) be the number of nilpotent groups of order \(n\), which have nilpotence class at most \(2\), and are generated by at most \(2\) elements. In the paper under review, the numbers \(g(n,2,2)\) are computed, by giving an explicit formula for the Dirichlet generating function \(\zeta_{2,2}(s)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty g(n,2,2)n^{-s}\). This is accomplished by using the strategy of \textit{M.~du Sautoy} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 92, 63-112 (2000; Zbl 1017.20012)], which requires to find suitable normal forms of certain double cosets of integral matrices, and the methods first developed by \textit{F.~J.~Grunewald, D.~Segal} and \textit{G.~C.~Smith} [Invent. Math. 93, No. 1, 185-223 (1988; Zbl 0651.20040)].

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• Enumeration of nilpotent associative algebras of class 2 over arbitrary finite fields
• On the automorphism of some classes of groups.
• On odd order nilpotent groups with class 2.
• Enumerating finite groups and their defining relations. II.
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