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Subgroups generated by small classes in finite groups
Author(s):
I.
M.
Isaacs
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
136
(2008),
2299-2301.
MSC (2000):
Primary 20D25
Posted:
March 14, 2008
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Abstract:
Let be the subgroup of generated by all elements that lie in conjugacy classes of the two smallest sizes. Avinoam Mann showed that if is nilpotent, then has nilpotence class at most . Using a slight variation on Mann's methods, we obtain results that do not require us to assume that is nilpotent. We show that if is supersolvable, then is nilpotent with class at most , and in general, the Fitting subgroup of has class at most .
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- N. Itô, On finite groups with given conjugate types. I, Nagoya Math. J. 6 (1953), 17-28. MR 0061597 (15:851c)
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- A. Mann, Elements of minimal breadth in finite
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I.
M.
Isaacs
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email:
isaacs@math.wisc.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09263-0
PII:
S 0002-9939(08)09263-0
Keywords:
Conjugacy class size,
nilpotent,
supersolvable,
nilpotence class
Received by editor(s):
March 26, 2007
Posted:
March 14, 2008
Communicated by:
Jonathan I. Hall
Copyright of article:
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2008,
American Mathematical Society
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