Factorizing a finite group into conjugates of a subgroup.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2014.07.012MaRDI QIDQ406354zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martino Garonzi, Dan Levy

Publication date 8 September 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5937

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsproducts of Sylow subgroupssporadic simple groupsfinite groups of Lie typealmost-simple groupsconjugate product coveringscovering problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Products of subgroups of abstract finite groups (20D40) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

Abstract: For every non-nilpotent finite group $G$, there exists at least one proper subgroup $M$ such that $G$ is the setwise product of a finite number of conjugates of $M$. We define $gamm{a}_{extcp}left(Gight)$ to be the smallest number $k$ such that $G$ is a product, in some order, of $k$ pairwise conjugated proper subgroups of $G$. We prove that if $G$ is non-solvable then $gamm{a}_{extcp}left(Gight)leq36$ while if $G$ is solvable then $gamm{a}_{extcp}left(Gight)$ can attain any integer value bigger than $2$, while, on the other hand, $gamm{a}_{extcp}left(Gight)leq4lo{g}_{2}leftvertGightvert$.

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• GAP
• CTblLib
• mfer
• ATLAS Group Representations

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