Finite groups which are c-absolute central factor group and the union of Ac-centralizers

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be a group and [Formula: see text] be the [Formula: see text]-absolute center of [Formula: see text], that is, the set of all elements of [Formula: see text] fixed by all class preserving automorphisms of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we classify all finite groups [Formula: see text], whose [Formula: see text]-absolute central factors are isomorphic to the direct product of cyclic groups, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Moreover, we consider finite groups which can be written as the union of centralizers of class preserving automorphisms and study the structure of [Formula: see text] for groups, in which the number of distinct centralizers of class preserving automorphisms is equal to 4 or 5.