On Infinite Camina Groups

Marcel Herzog*, Patrizia Longobardi, Mercede Maj

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Abstract

A group G is called a Camina group if G′ ≠ G and each element x ∈ G\G′ satisfies the equation x G = xG′, where x G denotes the conjugacy class of x in G. Finite Camina groups were introduced by Alan Camina in 1978, and they had been studied since then by many authors. In this article, we start the study of infinite Camina groups. In particular, we characterize infinite Camina groups with a finite G′ (see Theorem 3.1) and we show that infinite non-abelian finitely generated Camina groups must be nonsolvable (see Theorem 4.3). We also describe locally finite Camina groups, residually finite Camina groups (see Section 3) and some periodic solvable Camina groups (see Section 5).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4403-4419
Number of pages17
JournalCommunications in Algebra
Volume39
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2011

Funding

FundersFunder number
University of Salerno

    Keywords

    • Camina groups
    • Centralizers
    • Cosets
    • Periodic groups
    • Residually finite groups

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