Abelian coverings of finite general linear groups and an application to their non-commuting graphs. (Q644701)

The authors introduce a family \(\mathcal A_{n}(q)\) of Abelian subgroups of \(\mathrm{GL}_n(q)\) such that \(\bigcup_{A\in\mathcal A_n(q)}A=\mathrm{GL}_n(q)\) and prove that \[ C_1q^{-n}\leq\frac{|\mathcal A_n(q)|}{|\mathrm{GL}_n(q)|}\leq C_2q^{-n} \] for explicit constants \(C_1\) and \(C_2\). As an application, they determine lower and upper bounds for the clique number of the non-commuting graph of \(\mathrm{GL}_n(q)\).