A Bound on the Order of Non-Abelian Tensor Square of a Prime-Power Group

Abstract

This article improves on an upper bound for the order of the non-abelian tensor square of a finite p-group G given in [3]. In particular, applying this for finite p-groups of order p n with factor group G/G′ of order p m , the bound p nm attains if and only if G is elementary abelian of rank n, quaternion group of order 8, or extra special p-group of order p 3 with odd exponent p.