Minimal partition-free groups

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Abstract: Let G be a finite group. A collection P={H1, ..., Hr} of subgroups of G, where r > 1, is said a non-trivial partition of G if every non-identity element of G belongs to one and only one Hi, for some 1 <=i<=r. We call a group G that does not admit any non-trivial partition a partition-free group. In this paper, we study a partition-free group G whose all proper non-cyclic subgroups admit non-trivial partitions.


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.











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