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Let \(G\) be a group. Define an equivalence relation \(\sim\) on \(G\) as follows: for \(x,y \in G\), \(x \sim y\) if \(x\) and \(y\) have same order. The set of sizes of equivalence classes with respect to this relation is called the same-order type of \(G\). Let \(s_{k}(G)\) and \(\pi_{e}(G)\) denote the number of elements of order \(k\) and the set of element orders of the finite group \(G\), respectively. Shen (2012) posed the following conjecture: let \(G\) be a group of order \(p^{l}\) with same-order type \(\{1,m,n\}\), and let \(|\pi_{e}(G)|>3\). If \(p=2\) and \(s_{2^{i}}(G)\neq0\) for \(i\ge2\), then \(s_{2^{i}}(G)=2^{l-2}\). If \(p>2\), then there is no such group. In this paper, we give a partial answer to this conjecture. In fact, for \(p=2\) with a counterexample, we give negative answer to the above conjecture, and for \(p>2\), we find that above conjecture holds for finite \(p\)-groups of nilpotency class less than \(p\).
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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, 2022, Vol. 111, pp. 869–872 https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm12911.
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Kumar, P. A Note on Shen’s Conjecture on Groups with Given Same-Order Type. Math Notes 111, 899–902 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434622050236
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