On groups with a class-preserving outer automorphism.

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2014.7.171MaRDI QIDQ394126zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter A. Brooksbank, Matthew S. Mizuhara

Publication date 24 January 2014

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7663

zbMATH Keywords

finite \(p\)-groupsgroups of class-preserving automorphismspc-presentationspolycyclic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Automorphisms of abstract finite groups (20D45) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: In 1911, Burnside asked whether or not there exist groups that have an outer automorphism which preserves conjugacy classes. Two years later he answered his own question by constructing a family of such groups. Using the small group library in MAGMA we determine all of the groups of order n < 512 that possess such an automorphism. Our investigations led to the discovery of four new infinite families of such groups, all of which are 2-groups of coclass 4.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group and let \(\Aut_c(G)\) denote the group of class-preserving automorphisms of \(G\). An automorphism of \(G\) is said to be class-preserving if it leaves all conjugacy classes of \(G\) invariant.NEWLINENEWLINE In the paper under review, the authors produce four distinct infinite families \(\{H_i\}\), for \(i\geq 1\), where \(H_i\) is a 4-generator 2-group of order \(2^{i+5}\) and nilpotency class \(i+1\) and such that every \(H_i\) has a non-inner class-preserving automorphism.NEWLINENEWLINE The construction is a blend of machine computation and skillful ``manual manipulation of normal forms of elements in a pc-presentation. The most important examples in the literature on class-preserving automorphisms are described in the Introduction and the authors remark that, although such infinite series of examples have been obtained previously, their examples exhibit a surprisingly strong relation between the orders and the nilpotency class.

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