On the number of generators of a finite group

DOI10.1007/BF01199809zbMath0675.20026OpenAlexW2022456803MaRDI QIDQ5903979

Robert M. Guralnick

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01199809

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsSylow subgroupsnumbers of generators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, (pi)-groups, (pi)-structure (20D20) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

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• Some applications of the first cohomology group
• Generation of simple groups
• Solvable generation of groups and Sylow subgroups of the lower central series
• On finite soluble groups
• On the number of generators of a finite group

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