Normal sections, class sizes and solvability of finite groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2013.09.033MaRDI QIDQ397848zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Z. Akhlaghi, María José Felipe, Antonio Beltrán

Publication date 12 August 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2013.09.033

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy class sizesfinite groupsnormal sectionssolvability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Review text

That the sizes of conjugacy classes of a finite group have an influence on the structure of the group has long been investigated. In particular, that a finite group with exactly 3 conjugacy class sizes is soluble was proved by \textit{N. Ito} [Osaka J. Math. 7, 231-251 (1970; Zbl 0198.04305)].NEWLINENEWLINE In this article the authors generalise this result in the following manner. Suppose \(N\) is a normal subgroup of the finite group \(G\) and consider the \(G\)-conjugacy class sizes of elements in \(N\). Then, if there are exactly 3 such conjugacy class sizes, \(N\) is soluble. As the authors comment, in general the \(G\)-class sizes of \(N\) give little information on the class sizes of \(N\), which makes the result more surprising. The proof is technical and uses the Classification of Finite Simple Groups.

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