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On coverings of a finite group by abelian subgroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

David R. Mason
Affiliation:
Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, Hertfordshire

Extract

In (2), Erdös and Straus pose the following two conjectures.

If G is a finite group of order n and X is a subset of G consisting of pairwise non-commuting elements, then |X| ≤ n/2 + 1.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1978

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