On finite soluble groups in which Sylow permutability is a transitive relation. (Q705711)

Continuing their recent investigations on finite groups in which normality is transitive, the authors now study PST-groups, that are groups in which S-permutability (= Sylow permutability) is a transitive relation. The concepts of weak normal subgroups resp. subgroups fulfilling the subnormalizer condition, which have proved useful in the former case, are generalized to weakly S-permutability resp. the S-subnormalizer condition and used to characterize finite soluble PST-groups. The proofs rely heavily on the following theorem: A subgroup \(H\) of a group \(G\) is S-permutable in \(G\) if and only if \(H\) is S-permutable in \(\langle H,g\rangle\) for every \(g\in G\).