Powerfully nilpotent groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2018.12.007MaRDI QIDQ1712472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peng Zhang

Publication date 22 January 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00962

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30)

Abstract: We introduce a special class of powerful $p$-groups that we call powerfully nilpotent groups that are finite $p$-groups that possess a central series of a special kind. To these we can attach the notion of a powerful nilpotence class that leads naturally to a classification in terms of an `ancestry tree' and powerful coclass. We show that there are finitely many powerfully nilpotent $p$-groups of each given powerful coclass and develop some general theory for this class of groups. We also determine the growth of powerfully nilpotent groups of exponent $p^2$ and order $p^n$ where $p$ is odd. The number of these is $f(n)=p^{alpha{n}^3+o(n^3)}$ where $alpha=frac9+4sqrt2394$. For the larger class of all powerful groups of exponent $p^2$ and order $p^n$, where $p$ is odd, the number is $p^{frac227n^3+o(n^3)}$. Thus here the class of powerfully nilpotent $p$-groups is large while sparse within the larger class of powerful $p$-groups.

Review text

A \(p\)-group \(G\) is called powerful if \(G^\prime \leq G^p\) (\(p\) odd) or \(G^\prime \leq G^4\) (\(p = 2\)). The authors of this paper study an interesting subclass of powerful groups. A \(p\)-group \(G\) is called powerfully nilpotent if there is a ascending central series \(1 =H_0 \leq H_1\leq \dots \leq H_n = G\) such that \([H_i,G] \leq H_{i-1}^p\), \(i = 1, \ldots , n\). An easy observation is that for a powerful group \(G\) the groups \(\Phi (G)\), \(G^{p^{i}}\) are all powerfully nilpotent. In this paper the authors start a theory of powerfully nilpotent groups, introduce a powerful nilpotency class and study the growth of powerfully nilpotent groups of order \(p^n\) and exponent \(p^2\) for \(p\) odd.

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