Upper bounds on the number of conjugacy classes in unitriangular groups.

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2016-0016MaRDI QIDQ338560zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Soffer

Publication date 7 November 2016

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5389

zbMATH Keywords

numbers of conjugacy classesunitriangular matrix groups over finite fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: We provide a new upper bound on the number of conjugacy classes in the group $U_n(q)$ of unitriangular matrices over a finite field. We also compute a similar upper bound for every group in the lower central series of $U_n(q)$.

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