Class preserving automorphisms of unitriangular groups. (Q2888840)

Let \(G\) be a group. Denote by \(\text{Inn}(G)\) and \(\Aut_c(G)\) the class of all inner automorphisms and all class preserving automorphisms of \(G\), respectively. One can see that \(\text{Inn}(G)\trianglelefteq\Aut_c(G)\) and it was proved by Burnside in 1913 that in general such subgroups of the group \(\Aut(G)\) of all automorphisms of \(G\) may not coincide with each other.NEWLINENEWLINE In the article under review, the authors consider the group \(G=\text{UT}_n(K)\) of all unitriangular matrices over a field \(K\) and for such a group \(G\), they find necessary and sufficient conditions for the equality \(\Aut_c(G)=\text{Inn}(G)\). In fact, they prove that \(\Aut_c(\text{UT}_n(K))=\text{Inn}(\text{UT}_n(K))\) if and only if \(K\) is a prime field.NEWLINENEWLINE There is another problem which is studied in the present article. Let \(\mathbb F_{p^m}\) be a finite field and suppose that \(G_n^{(m)}=\text{UT}_n(\mathbb F_{p^m})/\gamma_3(\text{UT}_n(\mathbb F_{p^m}))\), where \(\gamma_3(\text{UT}_n(\mathbb F_{p^m}))\) denotes the third term of the lower central series of \(\text{UT}_n(\mathbb F_{p^m})\). The authors calculate the group \(\Aut_c(G_n^{(m)})\) and also, they show that the factor group \(\Aut_c(G_n^{(m)})/\text{Inn}(G_n^{(m)})\) does not depend on \(n\).