ON SOME EQUIVALENCE RELATION ON NON-ABELIAN $\CA$-GROUPS

Abstract

A non-abelian group $G$ is called a $\CA$-group ($\CC$-group) if $C_G(x)$ is abelian(cyclic) for all $x\in G\setminus Z(G)$. We say $x\sim y$ if and only if $C_G(x)=C_G(y)$.We denote the equivalence class including $x$ by$[x]_{\sim}$. In this paper, we prove thatif $G$ is a $\CA$-group and $[x]_{\sim}=xZ(G)$, for all $x\in G$, then $2^{r-1}\leq|G'|\leq 2^{r\choose 2}$.where $\frac {|G|}{|Z(G)|}=2^{r}, 2\leq r$ and characterize all groups whose $[x]_{\sim}=xZ(G)$for all $x\in G$ and $|G|\leq 100$. Also, we will show that if $G$ is a $\CC$-group and $[x]_{\sim}=xZ(G)$,for all $x \in G$, then $G\cong C_m\times Q_8$ where $C_m$ is a cyclic group of odd order $m$ andif $G$ is a $\CC$-group and $[x]_{\sim}=x^G$, for all $x\in G\setminus Z(G)$, then $G\cong Q_8$.