A Bound on the Number of Conjugacy Classes of a Finite Soluble Group

1987 ◽  
Vol s2-36 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Cartwright
1975 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Tomkinson

W. Gaschutz [5] introduced a conjugacy class of subgroups of a finite soluble group called the prefrattini subgroups. These subgroups have the property that they avoid the complemented chief factors of G and cover the rest. Subsequently, these results were generalized by Hawkes [12], Makan [14; 15] and Chambers [2]. Hawkes [12] and Makan [14] obtained conjugacy classes of subgroups which avoid certain complemented chief factors associated with a saturated formation or a Fischer class. Makan [15] and Chambers [2] showed that if W, D and V are the prefrattini subgroup, 𝔍-normalizer and a strongly pronormal subgroup associated with a Sylow basis S, then any two of W, D and V permute and the products and intersections of these subgroups have an explicit cover-avoidance property.


1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Tomkinson

The Carter subgroups of a finite soluble group may be characterised either as theself-normalising nilpotent subgroups or as the nilpotent projectors. Subgroups with properties analogous to both of these have been considered by Newell (2, 3) in the class of -groups. The results obtained are necessarily less satisfactory than in the finite case, the subgroups either being almost self-normalising (i.e. having finite index in their normaliser) or having an almost-covering property. Also the subgroups are not necessarily conjugate but lie in finitely many conjugacy classes.


1969 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Lausch ◽  
A. Makan

In a finite soluble group G, the Fitting (or nilpotency) length h(G) can be considered as a measure for how strongly G deviates from being nilpotent. As another measure for this, the number v(G) of conjugacy classes of the maximal nilpotent subgroups of G may be taken. It is shown that there exists an integer-valued function f on the set of positive integers such that h(G) ≦ f(v(G)) for all finite (soluble) groups of odd order. Moreover, if all prime divisors of the order of G are greater than v(G)(v(G) - l)/2, then h(G) ≦3. The bound f(v(G)) is just of qualitative nature and by far not best possible. For v(G) = 2, h(G) = 3, some statements are made about the structure of G.


1973 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 862-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Makan

Various characteristic conjugacy classes of subgroups having covering/avoidance properties with respect to chief factors have recently played a major role in the study of finite soluble groups. Apart from the subgroups which are now called Hall subgroups, P. Hall [7] also considered the system normalizers of a finite soluble group and showed that these form a characteristic conjugacy class, cover the central chief factors and avoid the rest. The system normalizers were later shown by Carter and Hawkes [1] to be the simplest example of a wealth of characteristic conjugacy classes of subgroups of finite soluble groups which arise naturally as a consequence of the theory of formations.


1972 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.R. Makan

It is shown that there exists a logarithmic upper bound on the Fitting length h(G) of a finite soluble group G in terms of the number ν(G) of the conjugacy classes of its maximal nilpotent subgroups. For ν(G) = 3, the best possible bound on h(G) is shown to be 4.


1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-237
Author(s):  
A. R. Makan

It is known that the Fitting length h(G) of a finite soluble group G is bounded in terms of the number v(G) of the conjugacy classes of its maximal nilpotent subgroups. For |G| odd, a bound on h(G) in terms of v(G) was discussed in Lausch and Makan [6]. In the case when the prime 2 divides |G|, a logarithmic bound on h(G) in terms of v(G) is obtained in [7]. The main purpose of this paper is to show that the Fitting length of a finite soluble group is also bounded in terms of the number of conjugacy classes of its maximal metanilpotent subgroups. In fact, our result is rather more general.


1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mecky ◽  
J. Neubüser

Laue et al have described basic algorithms for computing in a finite soluble group G given by an AG-presentation, among them a general algorithm for the computation of the orbits of such a group acting on some set Ω. Among other applications, this algorithm yields straightforwardly a method for the computation of the conjugacy classes of elements in such a group, which has been implemented in 1986 in FORTRAN within SOGOS by the first author and in 1987 in C within CAYLEY. However, for this particular problem one can do better, as discussed in this note.


1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Wamsley

Mennicke (2) has given a class of three-generator, three-relation finite groups. In this paper we present a further class of three-generator, threerelation groups which we show are finite.The groups presented are defined as:with α|γ| ≠ 1, β|γ| ≠ 1, γ ≠ 0.We prove the following result.THEOREM 1. Each of the groups presented is a finite soluble group.We state the following theorem proved by Macdonald (1).THEOREM 2. G1(α, β, 1) is a finite nilpotent group.1. In this section we make some elementary remarks.


Author(s):  
R. J. Cook ◽  
James Wiecold ◽  
A. G. Wellamson

AbstractIt is proved that a finite soluble group of order n has at most (n − 1)/(q − 1) maximal subgroups, where q is the smallest prime divisor of n.


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