More on Landau's theorem and Conjugacy Classes

Abstract

In this paper we present two new results on the number of certain conjugacy classes of a finite group. For a finite group $G$, let $n(G)$ be the maximum of $k_p(G)$ taken over all primes $p$ where $k_p(G)$ denotes the number of conjugacy classes of nontrivial $p$-elements in $G$. Using a recent theorem of Giudici, Morgan and Praeger, we prove that there exists a function $f(x)$ with $f(x)\to \infty$ as $x\to \infty$ such that $n(G)\ge f(|G|)$ for any finite group $G$. Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $p$ be a prime dividing $|G|$. Let $k_{p^{\prime }}(G)$ denote the number of conjugacy classes of elements of $G$ whose orders are coprime to $p$. We show that either $p=11$ and $G=C_{11}^2⋊\text{SL}(2,5)$, or there exists a factorization $p-1=ab$ with $a$ and $b$ positive integers, such that $k_p(G)\ge a$ and $k_{p^{\prime }}(G)\ge b$ with equalities in both cases if and only if $G=C_p⋊C_b$ with $C_G(C_p)=C_p$.

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