Conjugacy class numbers and -subgroups

DOI10.2140/PJM.2021.311.135MaRDI QIDQ2057574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gunter Malle, Gabriel Navarro, Geoffrey R. Robinson

Publication date 7 December 2021

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2021.311.135

zbMATH Keywords

number of conjugacy classes, \(\pi \)-subgroups, almost abelian finite groups, l(B)-conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, (pi)-groups, (pi)-structure (20D20) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Review text

The number \(l(G)\) of \(p\)-regular classes of a finite group \(G\) is a key invariant in modular representation theory. The main question is wether \(l(G)\) can be bounded by the number of conjugacy classes of some subgroup of \(G\) of order not divisible by \(p\). This would have consequences for the Malle-Robinson \(l(B)\)-conjecture. In this paper, the authors investigate a \(\pi\)-version of this, for sets of primes \(\pi\). As part of investigations, the authors study finite groups that have more conjugacy classes than any of their proper subgroups. These groups naturally appear in questions on bounding from above the number of conjugacy classes of a group, and were considered by G. R. Robinson and J. G. Thompson in the context of the \(k(GV)\)-problem.

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• Finite groups with many \(p\)-regular conjugacy classes

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