Minimal partition-free groups (Q6054810)

A partition of a finite group \(G\) is a set \(\Pi=\{H_{1},\dots,H_{r}\}\) of \(r>1\) subgroups of \(G\) such that \(\bigcup_{H_{i} \in \Pi}H_{i}=G\) and \(H_{i} \cap H_{j} =1\) if \(i \not = j\) for \(i,j \in \{1,\dots, r\}\). A group \(G\) that does not admit any non-trivial partition is a partition-free group. In the paper under review, the authors study the partition-free groups \(G\) all whose proper non-cyclic subgroups admit a non-trivial partitions.