On the number of centralizers and conjugacy class sizes in finite groups.

Given a finite group G, denote by cs(G) the set of the sizes of the conjugacy classes of G and by Cent(G) the set of the centralizers of elements of G. Consider a prime p and integers s ≥ 2 and n ≥ 2 , with gcd (p , s) = 1 . In this paper, some relations between cs(G) and | Cent (G) | are established in the case where cs (G) = { 1 , p n , p n − 1 s } . Further, when p ∈ { 2 , 3 } , we determine the values of s and the structure of a finite group G such that cs (G) = { 1 , p n , p n − 1 s } . We also describe the structure of an AC-group G such that [ G : Z (G) ] = 3 n s and | Cent (G) | = 1 + ∑ i = 0 n 3 i , where gcd (3 , s) = 1 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]