On second minimal subgroups of Sylow subgroups of finite groups. (Q661373)

During the past four decades, the subgroup property known as the cover-avoidance property has gained more and more currency, first in the context of soluble groups, and more recently as a way of describing certain classes of soluble and supersoluble groups and their local versions. Let \(A\) be a subgroup of a group \(G\) and \(H/K\) a section of \(G\). We say that \(A\) covers \(H/K\) if \(HA=KA\) and \(A\) avoids \(H/K\) if \(A\cap H=A\cap K\). If \(A\) either covers or avoids every chief factor of \(G\), then we say that \(A\) has the cover and avoidance property in \(G\) or \(A\) is a CAP-subgroup of \(G\). The cover and avoidance property is not hereditary in intermediate subgroups. This leads to the following weaker property, which is persistent in subgroups and is also extremely useful in the structural study of the groups: A subgroup \(A\) of a group \(G\) is called partial CAP-subgroup of \(G\) if there exists a chief series \(\Gamma_A\) of \(G\) such that \(A\) either covers or avoids each factor of \(\Gamma_A\). Clearly, every CAP-subgroup is a partial CAP-subgroup, but the converse does not hold. In this paper, finite groups in which the second minimal subgroups (2-minimal subgroups for short) of their Sylow \(p\)-subgroups, \(p\) a fixed prime, are partial CAP-subgroups are completely classified.