Centralizer-count conjecture for groups with quotient ZpnZpn\mathbb{Z}_{p^n}\rtimes\mathbb{Z}_{p^n}

Let pp be a prime number, let nn be a positive integer, and let GG be a group with center ZZ such that

G/ZZpnZpn.G/Z\cong \mathbb{Z}_{p^n}\rtimes \mathbb{Z}_{p^n}.

Here, Cent(G)\operatorname{Cent}(G) denotes the set of distinct centralizers of elements of GG.

Centralizer-count conjecture. The number of distinct centralizers of GG satisfies

Cent(G)=(p+1)n+1.|\operatorname{Cent}(G)|=(p+1)^n+1.

The conjecture generalizes the preceding calculation for the case corresponding to n=2n=2, where the number of distinct centralizers is (p+1)2+1(p+1)^2+1. Its validity for arbitrary positive integers nn is not established in the supplied text.

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A. R. Ashrafi and M. A. Salahshour, “Counting Centralizers of a Finite Group with an Application in Constructing the Commuting Conjugacy Class Graph”, arXiv:2101.09030 (2021).

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