[seqfan] Re: At least the first 6 values are the same for A002884 and for A061350(2^n)

[Jonathan Post]

Sorry.  Meant to also ask if, likewise, A053290(n) = A061350(3^n)?

A053290  	 Number of nonsingular n X n matrices over GF(3).

Additional external references would be:

 Avinoam Mann, Philip Hall’s “rather curious” formula for abelian
p-groups, Israel J. Math. 96 (1996), part B, 445-448.

Francis Clarke, Counting abelian group structures, Proceedings of the
AMS, 134 (2006), 2795–2799.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jonathan Post <jvospost3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it true (I just woke up and don't clearly recall my Group Theory)
> that  A002884  is A061350(2^n)?
>
> A002884         Number of nonsingular n X n matrices over GF(2) (order of
> Chevalley group A_n (2)).
> (Formerly M4302 N1798)
>        1, 1, 6, 168, 20160, 9999360, ...
>
> A061350         Maximal size of Aut(G) where G is a finite Abelian group of order n.
>
> If so, a nice comment would be  Hall's:
>
> "The sum of the reciprocals of the orders of all the Abelian groups of
> order a power of p is equal to the sum of the reciprocals of the
> orders of their groups of automorphisms."
>
> Link to:
>
> John Baez:
> This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 300)
>
> http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/this-weeks-finds-in-mathematical-physics-week-300/#comment-469
>
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