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Some bounds for the degree of commutativity of a p-group of maximal class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Antonio Vera-López  and
Gustavo A. Fernández-Alcober
Antonio Vera-López
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, e-mail: mtpveloa@lg.ehu.esmtpfealg@lg.ehu.es
Gustavo A. Fernández-Alcober
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, e-mail: mtpveloa@lg.ehu.esmtpfealg@lg.ehu.es
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In this paper we obtain several lower bounds for the degree of commutativity of a p-group of maximal class of order pm. All the bounds known up to now involve the prime p and are almost useless for small m. We introduce a new invariant b which is related with the commutator structure of the group G and get a bound depending only on b and m, not on p. As a consequence, we bound the derived length of G and the nilpotency class of a certain maximal subgroup in terms of b. On the other hand, we also generalise some results of Blackburn. Examples are given in order to check the sharpness of the bounds.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , June 1995 , pp. 353 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1995

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