Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1992

First Advisor

Gary Sherman

Abstract

Given a group G, we define pi as the probability that, given an ordered pair X = (x,y), there are exactly i elements in X3 = {x1x2x3 l xi in X}. We show that P2( G) = 0 if, and only if, IGI is odd, and that p3(G) = 0 if, and only if, IGI is not divisible by three. The groups for which p4 ( G) = 0 and p5 ( G) = 0 are also determined.

Comments

MSTR 92-10

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Algebra Commons

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