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Publications [#10391] of Mark Huber

Papers Published

  1. Stephen Ahearn, Mark L. Huber, Gary Sherman, Finite groups can be arbitrarily Hamiltonian, Communications in Algebra, vol. 27 no. 3 (1999), pp. 1013--1016
    (last updated on 2007/08/08)

    Abstract:
    In finite groups that are not abelian, at most 3/4 of pairs of elements will commute. A natural question is whether this gap extends to measures of "Hamiltonianess". In fact, this paper shows that for any rational number r between 0 and 1, there exist groups where the probability that a subgroup chosen uniformly at random from the set of subgroups is normal is exactly r. The proof technique was suggested through computer experimentation.

 

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