OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Miklós Abért proved that the symmetric group S_n is a product of at most 72*n^(1/2)*(log(n))^(3/2) cyclic subgroups. Here we have taken the floor of the upper bound stated in the reference in which the author also states the lower bound of (1 + o(1))*(n*log(n))^(1/2) cyclic subgroups.
LINKS
Miklós Abért, Symmetric groups as products of Abelian subgroups, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., Volume 34, Issue 04, July 2002, pp. 451-456.
R. Bercov and L. Moser, On Abelian permutation groups, Canad. Math. Bull. 8 (1965) 627-630.
MATHEMATICA
Join[{0}, Table[Floor[72*n^(1/2)*(Log[n])^(3/2)], {n, 100}]] (* T. D. Noe, May 23 2013 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
L. Edson Jeffery, May 16 2013
EXTENSIONS
Definition amended by Georg Fischer, Aug 31 2021
STATUS
approved