On generating a finite group by nilpotent subgroups

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(94)00019-0MaRDI QIDQ1346188zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Cossey, Trevor Hawkes

Publication date 30 October 1995

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(94)00019-0

zbMATH Keywords

finite soluble groupsnilpotent subgroupsprime divisors of group order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

The paper was motivated by a question that \textit{L. Babai} [Can. Math. Bull. 17, 467-470 (1974; Zbl 0311.05120)] had asked. It is shown that, for every positive integer \(n\), there exists a finite soluble group \(G_ n\) which can be generated by \(n\) but not fewer than \(n\) of its nilpotent subgroups. Groups satisfying this condition are constructed inductively. Given their important result, the authors then raise the problem to determine, for each positive integer \(N\), the smallest positive integer \(\nu(N)\) such that all groups of order \(N\) can be generated by at most \(\nu (N)\) of their nilpotent subgroups. The construction of the paper also provides the result that \(\nu (N)\) is less than or equal to the number of distinct prime divisors of \(N\).

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