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

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2016-0016zbMATH Open1352.20036arXiv1411.5389OpenAlexW2962797940MaRDI QIDQ338560FDOQ338560

Authors: Andrew Soffer 

Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

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 $U_n(q)$.

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

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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)

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