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Publications and source records attributed to Saikat Panja.
In this article, we introduce the notion of a wedge of graphs and provide detailed computations for the independence complex of a wedge of path and cycle graphs. In particular, we show that these complexes are either contractible or wedges of spheres.
A group $G$ is called to be acceptable (due to M. Larsen) if for any finite group $H$, two element-conjugate homomorphisms are globally conjugate. We answer the acceptability question for general linear, special linear, unitary, symplectic and all orthogonal groups over an algebraically closed field of non-zero characteristics.
For an integer $M\geq 2$ and a finite group $G$, an element $α\in G$ is called an $M$-th power if it satisfies $A^M=α$ for some $A\in G$. In this article, we will deal with the case when $G$ is finite symplectic or orthogonal group over a field of order $q$. We introduce the notion of $M^*$-power SRIM polynomials. This, amalgamated with the concept of $M$-power polynomial, we provide the complete classification of the conjugacy classes of regular semisimple, semisimple, cyclic and regular elements in $G$, which are $M$-th powers, when $(M,q)=1$. The approach here is of generating functions, as worked on by Jason Fulman, Peter M. Neumann, and Cheryl Praeger in the memoir "A generating function approach to the enumeration of matrices in classical groups over finite fields". As a byproduct, we obtain the corresponding probabilities, in terms of generating functions.
We provide the structure of some idempotents in the integral ring of a dihedral quandles, for odd case. The solution is complete in case $n=5$. This produces an example of a connected quandle $X$ such that $Aut (X)\not\cong Aut (\mathbb{Z}[X])$.
It was conjectured that the augmentation ideal of a dihedral quandle of even order $n>2$ satisfies $|Δ^k(\text{R}_n)/Δ^{k+1}(\text{R}_{n})|=n$ for all $k\geq 2$. In this article we provide a counterexample against this conjecture.
Let $G$ and $N$ be finite groups of order $2n$ where $n$ is odd. We say the pair $(G,N)$ is Hopf-Galois realizable if $G$ is a regular subgroup of $\h(N)=N\rtimes\au(N)$. In this article we give necessary conditions on $G$ (similarly $N$) when $N$ (similarly $G$) is a group of the form $\mathbb{Z}_n\rtimes\mathbb{Z}_2$. Further we show that this condition is also sufficient if radical of $n$ is a Burnside number. This classifies all the skew braces which has the additive group (or the multiplicative group) to be isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_n\rtimes\mathbb{Z}_2$, in this case.
Let $K/F$ be a finite Galois extension of fields with $Gal(K/F)=Γ$. In an earlier work of Timothy Kohl, the author enumerated dihedral Hopf-Galois structures acting on dihedral extensions. Dihedral group is one particular example of semidirect product of $\mathbb{Z}_n$ and $\mathbb{Z}_2$. In this article we count the number of Hopf-Galois structures with Galois group $Γ$ of type $G$, where $Γ,G$ are groups of the form $\mathbb{Z}_N\rtimes_ϕ\mathbb{Z}_2$ when $N$ is odd with radical of $N$ being a Burnside number. As an application we also find the corresponding number of skew braces.
We provide the structure of the unit group of $\f_{p^k}(\SL(3,2))$, where $p\geq 11$ is a prime and $\SL(3,2)$ denotes the $3\times 3$ invertible matrices over $\f_2$.