For a finite group G we define the graph Γ(G) to be the graph whose vertices are the conjugacy classes of cyclic subgroups of G and two conjugacy classes A, B are joined by an edge if for some A ∈ A, B ∈ B A and B permute. We characterise those groups G for which

Let G be a quasi-split connected reductive group over a local field of characteristic 0, and fix a regular nilpotent element in the Lie algebra g of G. A theorem of Kostant then provides a canonical conjugacy class within each stable conjugacy class of regular semisimple elements in g. Normalized transfer factors take the value 1 on these canonical conjugacy classes.

In [8, §8], the first author outlined an algorithm for calculating a parametrization of the conjugacy classes in a Sylow p-subgroup U(q) of a finite Chevalley group G(q), valid when q is a power of a good prime for G(q). In this paper we develop this algorithm and discuss an implementation in the computer algebra language GAP. Using the resulting computer program we are able to calculate the pa...

The algebraic classification of Cardy for boundary states on a G/H coset CFT of a compact group G, is geometrically realized on the corresponding manifold resulting from gauging the WZW model. The branes consist of H orbits of quantized G conjugacy classes shifted by quantized H conjugacy classes.

(A) We study in this paper topological properties of conjugacy classes in Polish groups. There are two questions which we are particularly interested in. First, does a Polish group G have a dense conjugacy class? This is equivalent (see, e.g., Kechris [95, 8.47]) to the following generic ergodicity property of G: Every conjugacy invariant subset A ⊆ G with the Baire property (e.g., a Borel set)...

An S3-involution graph for a group G is a graph with vertex set a union of conjugacy classes of involutions of G such that two involutions are adjacent if they generate an S3-subgroup in a particular set of conjugacy classes. We investigate such graphs in general and also for the case where G = PSL(2, q).

An S3-involution graph for a group G is a graph with vertex set a union of conjugacy classes of involutions of G such that two involutions are adjacent if they generate an S3-subgroup in a particular set of conjugacy classes. We investigate such graphs in general and also for the case where G = PSL(2, q). 2000 Mathematics subject classification: 20B25, 05C25.

Let G be an affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field whose identity component G0 is reductive. Let W be the Weyl group of G and let D be a connected component of G whose image in G/G0 is unipotent. In this paper we define a map from the set of “twisted conjugacy classes” in W to the set of unipotent G0-conjugacy classes in D generalizing an earlier construction which applied wh...

Let G be a group. Two elements x, y are said to be in the same z-class if their centralizers are conjugate in G. The conjugacy classes give a partition of G. Further decomposition of the conjugacy classes into z-classes provides an important information about the internal structure of the group. Let V be a vector space of dimension n over a field F of characteristic different from 2. Let B be a...