Counting the Number of Centralizers of 2-Element Subsets in a Finite Group

Abstract

Suppose $G$ is a finite group. The set of all centralizers of $2-$element subsets of $G$ is denoted by $2-Cent(G)$. A group $G$ is called $(2,n)-$centralizer if $|2-Cent(G)|=n$ and primitive $(2,n)-$centralizer if $|2-Cent(G)|=|2-Cent(\frac{G}{Z(G)})|=n$, where $Z(G)$ denotes the center of $G$. The aim of this paper is to present the main properties of $(2,n)-$centralizer groups among them a characterization of $(2,n)-$centralizer and primitive $(2,n)-$centralizer groups, $n\le 9$, are given.

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