The number of conjugacy classes in pattern groups is not a polynomial function.

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.081MaRDI QIDQ2882813zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zoltán Halasi, Péter P. Pálfy

Publication date 7 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL http://real.mtak.hu/9860/1/jgt.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

numbers of conjugacy classespattern groupspolynomial functions

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)

Review text

A famous open problem due to Graham Higman asks if the number of conjugacy classes in the group of \(n\times n\) unipotent upper triangular matrices over the \(q\)-element field can be expressed as a polynomial function of \(q\) for every fixed \(n\). In this paper, the authors consider the generalization of the problem for pattern groups and prove that for some pattern groups of nilpotency class two the number of conjugacy classes is not a polynomial function of \(q\).

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