Powerful \(p\)-groups have non-inner automorphisms of order \(p\) and some cohomology. (Q2270124)

The author describes the paper very well in his abstract: ``We study the longstanding conjecture of whether there exists a non-inner automorphism of order \(p\) for a finite non-Abelian \(p\)-group. We prove that if \(G\) is a finite non-Abelian \(p\)-group such that \(G/Z(G)\) is powerful, then \(G\) has a non-inner automorphism of order \(p\) leaving either \(\Phi(G)\) or \(\Omega_1(Z(G))\) elementwise fixed. We also recall a connection between the conjecture and a cohomological problem and we give an alternative proof of the latter result for odd \(p\), by showing that the Tate cohomology \(H^n(G/N,Z(N))\neq 0\) for all \(n\geq 0\), where \(G\) is a finite \(p\)-group, \(p\) is odd, \(G/Z(G)\) is \(p\)-central (i.e., elements of order \(p\) are central) and \(N\triangleleft G\) with \(G/N\) non-cyclic.''