{ "id": "2305.06184", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-05-10T14:15:58.000Z", "updated": "2023-05-10T14:15:58.000Z", "title": "Groups with anticentral elements", "authors": [ "Frieder Ladisch" ], "comment": "12 pages; old paper from 2008 put on arXiv for the sake of \"green\" open access", "journal": "Comm. Algebra 36, no. 8 (2008), pp 2883-2894", "doi": "10.1080/00927870802108106", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We study finite groups $G$ with elements $g$ such that $\\lvert \\mathbf{C}_G(g)\\rvert = \\lvert G:G' \\rvert$. (Such elements generalize fixed-point-free automorphisms of finite groups.) We show that these groups have a unique conjugacy class of nilpotent supplements for the commutator subgroup and, using the classification of finite simple groups, that these groups are solvable.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-05-10T14:15:58.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20D10", "20D15", "20C15" ], "keywords": [ "anticentral elements", "finite simple groups", "study finite groups", "elements generalize fixed-point-free automorphisms", "unique conjugacy class" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Taylor-Francis" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }