{ "id": "2003.05356", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-03-11T15:26:04.000Z", "updated": "2020-03-11T15:26:04.000Z", "title": "Bounding the number of classes of a finite group in terms of a prime", "authors": [ "Attila MarĂ³ti", "Iulian I. Simion" ], "comment": "To appear in Journal of Group Theory", "doi": "10.1515/jgth-2019-0144", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "H\\'ethelyi and K\\\"ulshammer showed that the number of conjugacy classes $k(G)$ of any solvable finite group $G$ whose order is divisible by the square of a prime $p$ is at least $(49p+1)/60$. Here an asymptotic generalization of this result is established. It is proved that there exists a constant $c>0$ such that for any finite group $G$ whose order is divisible by the square of a prime $p$ we have $k(G) \\geq cp$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-03-11T15:26:04.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "conjugacy classes", "asymptotic generalization", "solvable finite group" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }