Talk:Center (group theory)

Z(G)

Why is the center always written as Z(G)? Z comes from the German zentrum or zahlen (integer)? Albmont (talk) 17:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

It comes from wikt:Zentrum (see also de:Zentrum (Algebra)). In German, the centralizer is also denoted by Z, as in de:Zentralisator. Sometimes in English, the center is denoted C = C_G(G), but Z = Z(G) is much more common. JackSchmidt (talk) 17:49, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Is it true that c-1ZG(S)c=ZG(c-1Sc)

Is it true that c^-1Z_G(S)c = Z_G(c^-1Sc) where G is the group and S is some subset of the group and c is a fixed element of G.

Note that c-1Sc = (c-1)b(c) where b is in S and (c-1) is inverse of c. And Z_G(c^-1Sc) = (c-1)b(c) for b in Z_G(S). Mind that here the two b's are not the same!

If it is so then I think it should be mentioned in the article along with giving its proof, with a few examples at the end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.28.213 (talk) 04:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Question

Why is field is necessary for the group & vector space??

Muhammad Arfan Jutt (talk) 07:55, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Section on application?

I think it would be good to have a short section on the applications of the concept of a center. Zaunlen (talk) 15:17, 10 November 2019 (UTC)