Numbers Of Conjugacy Class Sizes And Derived Lengths for A-Groups

An A-group is a finite solvable group all of whose Sylow subgroups are abelian. In this paper, we are interested in bounding the derived length of an A-group G as a function of the number of distinct sizes of the conjugacy classes of G. Although we do not find a specific bound of this type, we do prove that such a bound exists. We also prove that if G is an A-group with a faithful and completely reducible G-module V, then the derived length of G is bounded by a function of the number of distinct orbit sizes under the action of G on V.