abstract. in this paper, we classify all of the finite p-groups with at most three non linear irreducible character kernels.

let $g$ be a finite group‎. ‎a subset $x$ of $g$ is a set of pairwise non-commuting elements‎ ‎if any two distinct elements of $x$ do not commute‎. ‎in this paper‎ ‎we determine the maximum size of these subsets in any finite‎ ‎non-abelian metacyclic $2$-group and in any finite non-abelian $p$-group with an abelian maximal subgroup‎.