Projektive Klassen endlicher Gruppen. I: Schunck- und Gaschützklassen (Q796632)

The author ingeniously extends the theory of \textit{W. Gaschütz} [Selected topics in the theory of soluble groups. Lectures given at the 9th Summer Research Institute of the Australian Math. Soc. (Canberra 1969)] and \textit{H. Schunck} [Math. Z. 97, 326-330 (1967; Zbl 0158.02802)] on special classes of finite soluble groups (formations and Schunck classes) and their corresponding canonical conjugacy classes of \({\mathcal H}\)-covering subgroups and \({\mathcal H}\)-projectors in finite soluble groups to the universe of arbitrary finite groups. A general theory of projectors and covering subgroups is developed and existence and conjugacy criteria are given for such subgroups. The main point of the paper is to introduce a special sort of \({\mathcal H}\)-subgroups ``between \({\mathcal H}\)-projectors and \({\mathcal H}\)-covering subgroups'' which, like \({\mathcal H}\)-projectors, always exist for Schunck classes, but, like \({\mathcal H}\)-covering subgroups, have heredity properties ensuring conjugacy criteria. Finally, the paper successfully deals with the question when the projectors have always the above heredity properties.