We classify all finite p-groups G for which |Autc(G)| attains its maximum value, where Autc(G) denotes the group of all class preserving automorphisms of G.

Let P be a finite partially ordered set, briefly a finite poset. We will show that for any P -persistent object X in the category of finite topological spaces, there is a P− weighted graph, whose clique complex has the same P -persistent homology as X.

A p-local finite group consists of a finite p-group S, together with a pair of categories which encode “conjugacy” relations among subgroups of S, and which are modelled on the fusion in a Sylow p-subgroup of a finite group. It contains enough information to define a classifying space which has many of the same properties as p-completed classifying spaces of finite groups. In this paper, we stu...