Ordered structures and large conjugacy classes

Generalized Conjugacy Classes

Generalized conjugation is the action of a group on its underlying set given by (g, x) 7→ φ(g)xg, where φ : G → G is some fixed endomorphism. Here we study combinatorial properties of the sizes of the orbits of the preceding action. In particular, we reduce the problem to a simpler case if φ has a nontrivial kernel or if it is an inner automorphism, and we give a construction that allows a part...

Lambert series and conjugacy classes in GL

Commutators, Words, Conjugacy Classes and Character Methods

In this survey paper we show how character methods can be used to solve a wide range of seemingly unrelated problems. These include commutators, powers of conjugacy classes and related random walks, as well as word maps and Waring type problems. In particular we describe recent progress made on conjectures of Ore, of Thompson, and of Lulov and Pak. New open problems and conjectures are also sta...

COMPUTING THE PRODUCTS OF CONJUGACY CLASSES FOR SPECIFIC FINITE GROUPS

Suppose $G$ is a finite group, $A$ and $B$ are conjugacy classes of $G$ and $eta(AB)$ denotes the number of conjugacy classes contained in $AB$. The set of all $eta(AB)$ such that $A, B$ run over conjugacy classes of $G$ is denoted by $eta(G)$.The aim of this paper is to compute $eta(G)$, $G in { D_{2n}, T_{4n}, U_{6n}, V_{8n}, SD_{8n}}$ or $G$ is a decomposable group of order $2pq$, a group of...

From Conjugacy Classes in the Weyl Group to Unipotent Classes

Let G be a connected reductive algebraic group over an algebraic closed field. We define a (surjective) map from the set of conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to the set of unipotent classes in G.