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Finite groups with lots of conjugacy classes, but only small abelian normal subgroups?

Denote the commuting probability (the probability that two randomly chosen elements commute) of a finite group $G$ by $\operatorname{cp}(G)$. By a result of Gustafson [2], $\operatorname{cp}(G)=\...
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Commutator group and conjugacy classes

Let $G$ be a finite solvable group which is not nilpotent, and let $H=[G,G]$ be the commutator subgroup of $G$. Does the following hold for $G$ and $H$? "There exists $g \in G \setminus H$ and $h ...
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