Groups with some arithmetic conditions on real class sizes.

DOI10.1007/S10474-013-0317-9MaRDI QIDQ2448955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. P. Tong-Viet

Publication date 5 May 2014

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6369

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy class sizesfinite solvable groupsreal class sizesreal conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Abstract: Let G be a finite group. An element x in G is a real element if x is conjugate to its inverse in G. For x in G, the conjugacy class x^G is said to be a real conjugacy class if every element of x^G is real. We show that if 4 divides no real conjugacy class size of a finite group G, then G is solvable. We also study the structure of such groups in detail. This generalizes several results in the literature.

Review text

To derive algebraic information about a finite group given information about its conjugacy classes is an ongoing area of research. \textit{D. Chillag} and \textit{M. Herzog} [J. Algebra 131, No. 1, 110-125 (1990; Zbl 0694.20015)] proved that if no conjugacy class size is divisible by 4 then the group is soluble, a classification-free proof of this result is given by \textit{A. R. Camina} and \textit{R. D. Camina} [J. Group Theory 1, No. 3, 257-269 (1998; Zbl 0916.20015)]. Recall, a conjugacy class is called real if an element in the class is conjugate to its inverse. In this paper the author takes the nice step of just considering real class sizes and proves that if the conjugacy class size of every odd prime power order real element is either a 2-power or not divisible by 4 then the group is soluble. So, in particular, if all real class sizes are not divisible by 4, then the group is soluble. The proof uses the classification of finite simple groups.

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• Real class sizes
• 2-parts of real class sizes
• Invariant class sizes and solvability of finite groups under coprime action.
• Groups with reality and conjugacy conditions.
• Solvable groups having only three rational classes of 2-elements.
• Finite groups all of whose maximal subgroups have almost odd index

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