How abelian can a non-abelian group be?

Katarzyna Słomczyńska

Abstract


In this paper we survey, also in historical perspective, the results connected with the notion of the commutativity degree of a finite group, i.e., the probability that two randomly selected elements of the group commute.

Keywords


group, commutativity degree, conjugacy class, degree equation

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