Equality of generalized commuting probabilities determines central quotient order

Let G1G_{1} and G2G_{2} be finite groups, and let Pr2n(G)Pr^{2n}(G) denote the generalized commuting probability of GG at level 2n2n. Write Z(G)Z(G) for the center of GG. The conjecture. If

Pr2n(G1)=Pr2n(G2)Pr^{2n}(G_{1})=Pr^{2n}(G_{2})

for every n0n\geq0, then

G1/Z(G1)=G2/Z(G2).\left\vert G_{1}/Z(G_{1})\right\vert=\left\vert G_{2}/Z(G_{2})\right\vert.

The claim is motivated by the known fact that equality of all generalized commuting probabilities forces the commutator subgroups to have the same order. It is refuted by the groups G2G_{2} and G3=D8×D8G_{3}=D_{8}\times D_{8}, which provide a counterexample to the opposite direction of the related isoclinism conjecture.

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Yonah Cherniavsky, Avraham Goldstein, Vadim E. Levit and Robert Shwartz, “Hultman Numbers and Generalized Commuting Probability in Finite Groups”, arXiv:1403.3868 (2014).

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