login
A371059
Number of conjugacy classes of pairs of commuting elements in the alternating group A_n.
0
1, 1, 9, 14, 22, 44, 74, 160, 256, 462, 817, 1494, 2543, 4427, 7699, 13352, 22616, 38610, 65052, 110004, 182961, 305007, 503299, 830648, 1356227, 2212790, 3583419, 5790836
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
The number of conjugacy classes of pairs of commuting elements in a finite group G is the cardinality of the set {c(a,b) | a,b in G and ab=ba} where c(a,b) = {(gag^(-1),gbg^(-1)) | g in G}.
It is equal to the number of conjugacy classes within the centralizers of class representatives of G.
This reformulation was employed in the sequence-generating program.
It is also equal to the rank of the modular fusion category Z(Rep(G)), the Drinfeld center of Rep(G).
These reformulations are explained in the linked MathOverflow posts.
REFERENCES
A. Davydov, Bogomolov multiplier, double class-preserving automorphisms, and modular invariants for orbifolds. J. Math. Phys. 55 (2014), no. 9, 092305, 13 pp.
PROG
(GAP)
List([1..10], n->Sum(List(ConjugacyClasses(AlternatingGroup(n)), c->NrConjugacyClasses(Centralizer(AlternatingGroup(n), Representative(c))))));
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000702.
Sequence in context: A001198 A151915 A100263 * A155082 A161547 A104812
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Sébastien Palcoux, Mar 11 2024
STATUS
approved