An exact upper bound for the sum of powers of element orders in non-cyclic finite groups

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2023.107580MaRDI QIDQ6199048zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hiranya Kishore Dey, Archita Mondal

Publication date 23 February 2024

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05161

zbMATH Keywords

direct productnilpotent groupsemi-direct productsum of element orderssum of powers of element orders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Nilpotent groups (20F18) General structure theorems for groups (20E34) Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (05E16)

Abstract: For a finite group $G$, let $psi(G)$ denote the sum of element orders of $G$. This function was introduced by Amiri, Amiri, and Isaacs in 2009 and they proved that for any finite group $G$ of order $n$, $psi(G)$ is maximum if and only if $Gsimeqmathbb{Z}_n$ where $mathbb{Z}_n$ denotes the cyclic group of order $n$. Furthermore, Herzog, Longobardi, and Maj in 2018 proved that if $G$ is non-cyclic, $psi(G)leqfrac711psi(mathbb{Z}_n)$. Amiri and Amiri in 2014 introduced the function $ps{i}_k(G)$ which is defined as the sum of the $k$-th powers of element orders of $G$ and they showed that for every positive integer $k$, $ps{i}_k(G)$ is also maximum if and only if $G$ is cyclic. In this paper, we have been able to prove that if $G$ is a non-cyclic group of order $n$, then $ps{i}_k(G)leqfrac1+3.2^{k}1+2.4^k+2^{k}ps{i}_k(mathbb{Z}_n)$. Setting $k=1$ in our result, we immediately get the result of Herzog et al. as a simple corollary. Besides, a recursive formula for $ps{i}_k(G)$ is also obtained for finite abelian $p$-groups $G$, using which one can explicitly find out the exact value of $ps{i}_k(G)$ for finite abelian groups $G$.

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