Comptes Rendus. Mathématique (Mar 2020)

A characterization of Nested Groups in terms of conjugacy classes

  • Burkett, Shawn T.,
  • Lewis, Mark L.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5802/crmath.18
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 358, no. 1
pp. 109 – 112

Abstract

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A group is nested if the centers of the irreducible characters form a chain. In this paper, we will show that there is a set of subgroups associated with the conjugacy classes of group so that a group is nested if and only if these subgroups form a chain.

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