Control of transfer for odd primes (Q6489380)

Let \(p\) be a prime and \(T\) be a non-identity Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of a finite group \(G\). The group \(G\) is called \(p\)-nilpotent if it has a normal \(p\)-complement, that is there is \(N \trianglelefteq G\) such that \(G=NT\) and \(N \cap T=1\).NEWLINENEWLINEIn a seminal paper, \textit{J. G. Thompson} ([J. Algebra 1, 43--46 (1964; Zbl 0119.26802)]) proved that, if \(p\) is odd, then there exists a non-identity characteristic subgroup \(K\) of \(T\) with the property that \(G\) is \(p\)-nilpotent if and only if \(C_{G}(Z (T))\) and \(N_{G}(K)\) are \(p\)-nilpotent.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review the author proves that, if \(p\) is odd, then there exist two non-identity characteristic subgroups \(K_{1}(T)\) and \(K_{2}(T)\) of \(T\) such that jointly control transfer in every finite group \(G\), in the sense that the normalizers of \(K_{1}(T)\) and \(K_{2}(T)\) in \(G\) determine the largest abelian factor group of \(G\) that is a \(p\)-group. The author also gives a new example of a characteristic subgroup \(K(T)\) of \(T\) such that \(K(T)\) controls transfer in \(G\) by itself if \(p \geq 5\).