Class numbers of p-groups of a given order.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2004.03.006MaRDI QIDQ1880698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nigel Boston, I. M. Isaacs

Publication date 1 October 2004

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2004.03.006

zbMATH Keywords

finite \(p\)-groupsnumbers of conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Review text

Let \(p\) be a prime number, \(G\) a finite \(p\)-group and \(k(G)\) the class number of \(G\). Let \(D(p^e)\) denote the number of different numbers \(k(G)\) that arise as \(G\) runs over all groups of order \(p^e\), \(e\in\mathbb{N}\). In this paper, the authors study the behavior of the number \(D(p^e)\) as \(p\) varies while the exponent \(e\) is held constant. It is known that \(D(p^e)\) is bounded for \(e\leq 6\). According to E. O'Brien, \(D(p^7)\) is bounded; he also believes that \(D(p^8)\) is also bounded. Examples presented in the paper show that \(D(p^9)\) approaches infinity as \(p\) approaches infinity. In the proof some deep results of algebraic geometry are used.

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