Conjugacy classes of maximal cyclic subgroups of metacyclic \(p\)-groups (Q2687986)

Let \(G\) be a finite group and let \(\eta(G)\) be the number of conjugacy classes of maximal cyclic subgroups of \(G\). In the paper under review, the authors compute the value of \(\eta(G)\) for every metacyclic \(p\)-group \(G\). In particular, they prove that if \(G\) is a metacyclic \(p\)-group of order \(p^{n}\) that is not a dihedral group, generalized quaternion group or semi-dihedral group, then \(\eta(G) \geq n-2\).