p-power conjugacy classes in U(n,q) and T(n,q)

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be a [Formula: see text]-power where [Formula: see text] is a fixed prime. In this paper, we look at the [Formula: see text]-power maps on unitriangular group [Formula: see text] and triangular group [Formula: see text]. In the spirit of Borel dominance theorem for algebraic groups, we show that the image of this map contains large size conjugacy classes. For the triangular group we give a recursive formula to count the image size.