centralizer
Let a group acting on itself by conjugation.Let be a subset of .The stabilizer
of is called the centralizer
of and it’s the set
For any group , , the center of . Thus, any subgroup of is an abelian
subgroup of . However, the converse is generally not true. For example, take any non-abelian group
and pick any element not in the center. Then the subgroup generated by it is obviously abelian, clearly non-trivial and not contained in the center.