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The class equation and counting in factorizable monoids

Author(s): S. Lipscomb; J. Konieczny
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 3345-3351.
MSC (2000): Primary 20M20, 20M15
Posted: February 14, 2003
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Abstract: For orders and conjugacy in finite group theory, Lagrange's Theorem and the class equation have universal application. Here, the class equation (extended to monoids via standard group action by conjugation) is applied to factorizable submonoids of the symmetric inverse monoid. In particular, if $M$is a monoid induced by a subgroup $G$ of the symmetric group $S_n$, then the center $Z_{\makebox{\tiny$G$ }}(M)$ (all elements of $M$ that commute with every element of $G$) is $Z(G) \cup\{0\}$ if and only if $G$ is transitive. In the case where $G$ is both transitive and of order either $p$ or $p^2$ (for $p$prime), formulas are provided for the order of $M$ as well as the number and sizes of its conjugacy classes.


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Additional Information:

S. Lipscomb
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401
Email: slipscom@mwc.edu

J. Konieczny
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401
Email: jkoniecz@mwc.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-06920-X
PII: S 0002-9939(03)06920-X
Keywords: Factorizable monoids, symmetric inverse semigroups, class equation, conjugacy classes, permutation groups, transformation semigroups
Received by editor(s): April 12, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 5, 2002
Posted: February 14, 2003
Communicated by: Stephen D. Smith
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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