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Let be a finite group, and let be the set of conjugacy class sizes of . By Thompson’s conjecture, if is a finite non-abelian simple group, is a finite group with a trivial center, and , then and are isomorphic. Recently, Chen et al. contributed interestingly to Thompson’s conjecture under a weak condition. They only used the group order and one or two special conjugacy class sizes of simple groups and characterized successfully sporadic simple groups (see Li’s PhD dissertation). In...
In this paper we classify all the finite groups satisfying r(G/S(G))=8 and ß(G)=r(G) - a(G) - 1, where r(G) is the number of conjugacy classes of G, ß(G) is the number of minimal normal subgroups of G, S(G) the socle of G and a(G) the number of conjugacy classes of G out of S(G). These results are a contribution to the general problem of the classification of the finite groups according to the number of conjugacy classes.
Let and be two groups of finite order , and suppose that they share a normal subgroup such that if or . Cases when is cyclic or dihedral and when for exactly pairs have been shown to be of crucial importance when studying pairs of 2-groups with the latter property. In such cases one can describe two general constructions how to get all possible from a given . The constructions, denoted by and , respectively, depend on a coset (or two cosets and ) modulo , and on an...