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### 5/8 bound in group theory

The odds of two random elements of a group commuting is the number of conjugacy classes of the group $$\frac{ \{ (g,h): ghg^{-1}h^{-1} = 1 \} }{ |G|^2} = \frac{c(G)}{|G|}$$ If this number exceeds ...
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### Combinatorial Techniques for Counting Conjugacy Classes

The number of conjugacy classes in $S_n$ is given by the number of partitions of $n$. Do other families of finite groups have a highly combinatorial structure to their number of conjugacy classes? For ...
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### The number of commuting m-tuples is divisible by order of group: Improvements?

The number of commuting pairs of elements in finite group G is equal to the product $k(G)*|G|$ (see MO271757 ) where $k(G)$ is the number of conjugacy classes. Thus it is is divisible by $|G|$ (the ...
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### Web interface for GAP (or other computer algebra system dealing with finite groups)?

GAP is computer algebra system which allows to make calculations with finite groups. (See wikipedia link for an example). Is there web interface for it ? (I cannot google it.) Or may be some other ...
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### Analogies supporting heuristic: Weyl groups = algebraic groups over field with one element?

There is well-known heuristic that Weyl groups are reductive algebraic groups over "field with one element". Probably the best known analogy supporting that heuristic is the limit $q\to1$ ...
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### Conjugcy classes in GL(F_2) ? GL(F_q)

How to deduce a formula (see below) for number of conjugacy classes in GL_n(F_2) ? (More generally F_q) ? Is there some description of conjugacy classes or we just know how many of them but do not ...
### Commuting matrix variety $[A,B]=0$ - can one geometrically explain divisibility of $F_ q$ point count by high powers of $q$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Comm{Comm}\DeclareMathOperator\Id{Id}$Consider the variety $\Comm$ of commuting matrices $[A,B]=0$ over some field $K$. It is much studied, and interesting for various reasons. ...