On the Fitting height of factorised soluble groups.

DOI10.1515/JGT-2014-0015MaRDI QIDQ741288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Casolo, Enrico Jabara, Pablo Spiga

Publication date 11 September 2014

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4314

zbMATH Keywords

derived lengthsfactorised groupsfinite groupsFitting heightssoluble groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Products of subgroups of abstract finite groups (20D40) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Abstract: In this paper we are concerned with finite soluble groups $G$ admitting a factorisation $G=AB$, with $A$ and $B$ proper subgroups having coprime order. We are interested in bounding the Fitting height of $G$ in terms of some group-invariants of $A$ and $B$: including the Fitting heights and the derived lengths.

Review text

This paper deals with finite soluble groups \(G\) admitting a factorisation \(G=AB\), with \(A\) and \(B\) proper subgroups having coprime order. The main goal is to obtain bounds of the Fitting height of \(G\) in terms of some group-invariants of \(A\) and \(B\), including the Fitting heights and the derived lengths. For a finite soluble group \(X\), the Fitting series of \(X\) is defined inductively by \(F_0(X)=1\) and \(F_{i+1}(X)/F_i(X)=F(X/F_i)\), for every \(i\geq 0\), \(F(X)\) being the Fitting subgroup of \(X\), and the minimum natural number \(h\) with \(F_h(X)=X\) is called the Fitting height of \(X\), and is denoted by \(h(X)\). Also, \(d(X)\) denotes the derived length of \(X\), and \(\delta(X)\) is the maximal derived length of the Sylow subgroups of \(X\). The main results of the paper are the following: Theorem 1.1. Let \(G\) be a finite soluble group factorised by its proper subgroups \(A\) and \(B\) with \(\gcd(|A|,|B|)=1\). Then \(h(G)\leq h(A)+h(B)+4d(B)-1\). Moreover, if \(|B|\) is odd, then \(h(G)\leq h(A)+h(B)+2d(B)-1\), and, if \(B\) is nilpotent, then \(h(G)\leq h(A)+2d(B)\). (The authors conjecture that the hypothesis of \(|B|\) being odd can be avoided in the previous result.) Theorem 1.2. Let \(G\) be a finite soluble group factorised by its proper subgroups \(A\) and \(B\) with \(\gcd(|A|,|B|)=1\). Then \(h(G)\leq h(A)+(2\delta(B)+1)h(B)-1\). Theorem 1.4. Let \(G\) be a finite soluble group factorised by its proper subgroups \(A\) and \(B\) with \(\gcd(|A|,|B|)=1\). Then \(h(G)\leq h(A)\delta(A)+h(B)\delta(B)\).

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