Simultaneous Conjugacy Classes as Combinatorial Invariants of Finite Groups

DOI10.1080/00927872.2022.2065494MaRDI QIDQ6319015arXivFDO

Authors Dilpreet Kaur, Sunil Kumar Prajapati, Amritanshu Prasad

Publication date 20 May 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group. We consider the problem of counting simultaneous conjugacy classes of $n$-tuples and simultaneous conjugacy classes of commuting $n$-tuples in $G$. Let $alph{a}_{G,n}$ denote the number of simultaneous conjugacy classes of $n$-tuples, and $$ the number of simultaneous conjugacy classes of commuting $n$-tuples in $G$. The generating functions $A_G(t)=su{m}_{ngeq0}alph{a}_{G,n}{t}^n,$ and $$ are rational functions of $t$. We show that $A_G(t)$ determines and is completely determined by the class equation of $G$. We show that $alph{a}_{G,n}$ grows exponentially with growth factor equal to the cardinality of $G$, whereas $$ grows exponentially with growth factor equal to the maximum cardinality of an abelian subgroup of $G$. The functions $A_G(t)$ and $B_G(t)$ may be regarded as combinatorial invariants of the finite group $G$. We study dependencies amongst these invariants and the notion of isoclinism for finite groups. We prove that the normalized functions $A_G(t/|G|)$ and $B_G(t/|G|)$ are invariants of isoclinism families.

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