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The number of conjugacy classes in some quotients of the Nottingham group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

P. P. Pálfy
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, P.O. Box 127 H-1364, Hungary E-mail address; ppp@math-inst.hu
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Abstract

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We determine the number of conjugacy classes in the natural quotient groups of the Nottingham group over the p-element field up to the quotient of order p3p+1.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1998

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