A341825 Number of finite groups G with |Aut(G)| = n.

2, 3, 0, 4, 0, 6, 0, 7, 0, 2, 0, 9, 0, 0, 0, 11, 0, 4, 0, 7, 0, 2, 0, 22, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 19, 0, 0, 0, 12, 0, 0, 0, 14, 0, 7, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0

Offset: 1

Author

Des MacHale, Mar 02 2021

Keywords

• nonn
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Comments

The smallest odd index n > 1 for which a(n) > 0 is 2187 = 3^7 (see A340521).

There exist even indices n that are not values taken by totient function phi (A002202) for which a(n) > 0. For example, John Bray has produced a group G that is the semidirect product 19:9 of order 3^2*19 = 171 such that |Aut(G)| = 1026 = 2*3^3*19.

Examples

			a(6) = 6, because there are six groups G with |Aut(G)| = 6. Four  cyclic groups: Aut(C_7) = Aut(C_9) = Aut(C_14) = Aut(C_18) ~~ C_6, and also Aut(C_2 x C_2) = Aut(S_3) ~~ S_3, where ~~ stands for “isomorphic to”. - _Bernard Schott_, Mar 02 2021
a(8) = 7, because there are seven groups G with |Aut(G)| = 8.
		

Links

• D. MacHale and R. Sheehy, Finite groups with few automorphisms, Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 104A, No. 2 (December 2004), 231-238.

Crossrefs

Cf. A002202, A137315, A340521, A341823, A341824.

Formula

a(2) = 3, a(p) = 0 if p odd prime.

a(A002202(n)) > 0, since |Aut(C_n)| = phi(n).