{ "id": "2012.08693", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-12-16T01:48:26.000Z", "updated": "2020-12-16T01:48:26.000Z", "title": "Commuting involutions and elementary abelian subgroups of simple groups", "authors": [ "Robert M. Guralnick", "Geoffrey R. Robinson" ], "categories": [ "math.GR", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "Motivated in part by representation theoretic questions, we prove that if G is a finite quasi-simple group, then there exists an elementary abelian subgroup of G that intersects every conjugacy class of involutions of G.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-12-16T01:48:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20D06", "20C15" ], "keywords": [ "elementary abelian subgroup", "simple groups", "commuting involutions", "finite quasi-simple group", "representation theoretic questions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }