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On P. Hall's Generalisation of a Theorem of Frobenius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

S. K. Sehgal
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A.
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1. It is a well known theorem due to Frobenius that the number of solutions of the equation

Xn = 1

in a finite group G, is a multiple of the greatest common divisor (n, g) of n and the order g of G. Frobenius himself proved later that the number of solutions of the equation

Xn = a

where a is a fixed element of G, is a multiple of (n, ga), ga being the order of the centralizer Z(a) of ain G.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1962

References

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