Groups with a few nonabelian centralizers (Q2834192)

For a group \(G\) let \(\text{cent}(G) = \{ C_G(g) : g \in G \}\) be the set of centralizers in G, and let \(\text{nacent}(G)\) denote its subset of nonabelian centralizers. The authors characterize all groups with \(\left| \text{nacent}(G) \right| = 2\).NEWLINENEWLINELet \(G\) be a finite group and let \(\omega(G)\) denote the maximal size of a set of pairwise noncommuting elements. Clearly, \(\left| \text{cent}(G) \right| \leq \left| \text{nacent}(G) \right| + \omega(G)\). It is proved that equality holds if \(\left| \text{nacent}(G) \right| \leq 7\) or if \(G\) is isomorphic to any of the simple groups \(\text{PSL}(2, q)\), \(\text{PSL}(3,3)\), or to the Suzuki group \(\text{Sz} \left( 2^{2n+1} \right)\), where \(q\) is an arbitrary prime power, and \(n\) is a positive integer.