Remarks on commutators in finite groups
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Marian Deaconescu
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Gary Walls
Abstract
The main result of this paper is a formula, in terms of characters, for the number of elements of a normal subgroup H of a finite group G which are not commutators in G.
Dedicated to I. M. Isaacs
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