On a conjecture of Webb

DOI10.1007/BF01191872MaRDI QIDQ750608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jacques Thévenaz

Publication date 1992

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01191872

zbMATH Keywords

chains of p-subgroupsfinite groupfusionorbit complexp-solvablesimplicial complex of chainsSylow p-subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, (pi)-groups, (pi)-structure (20D20) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10)

Review text

Let \(\Delta\) be the simplicial complex of chains of non-trivial p- subgroups of a finite group G, for some prime divisor p of \(| G|\). A conjecture of Webb asserts that the orbit complex \(\Delta\) /G is contractible. In the present note, the conjecture is proved when G satisfies one of the following conditions: (a) G is p-solvable, (b) G has a Sylow p-subgroup which is either abelian, or generalized quaternion, or TI. The proofs are based on some elementary results on p-subgroups and control of fusion.

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• Webb's conjecture for fusion systems.
• The orbit space of the \(p\)-subgroup complex is contractible
• A stronger reformulation of Webb's conjecture in terms of finite topological spaces
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