Conjugacy classes, characters and products of elements

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Abstract: Recently, Baumslag and Wiegold proved that a finite group G is nilpotent if and only if o(xy)=o(x)o(y) for every x,yinG of coprime order. Motivated by this result, we study the groups with the property that (xy)G=xGyG and those with the property that chi(xy)=chi(x)chi(y) for every complex irreducible character chi of G and every nontrivial x,yinG of pairwise coprime order. We also consider several ways of weakening the hypothesis on x and y. While the result of Baumslag and Wiegold is completely elementary, some of our arguments here depend on (parts of) the classification of finite simple groups.









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