Finite groups with an automorphism of large order

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2017-0003MaRDI QIDQ2360385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Bors

Publication date 3 July 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04607

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismautomorphism orderfinite group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Automorphisms of abstract finite groups (20D45) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group, and assume that $G$ has an automorphism of order at least $ho|G|$, with $hoinleft(0,1ight)$. Generalizing recent analogous results of the author on finite groups with a large automorphism cycle length, we prove that if $ho>1/2$, then $G$ is abelian, and if $ho>1/10$, then $G$ is solvable, whereas in general, the assumption implies $[G:operatornameRad(G)]leqh{o}^{-1.78}$, where $operatornameRad(G)$ denotes the solvable radical of $G$. Furthermore, we generalize an example of Horov{s}evskiu{i} to show that in finite groups, the quotient of the maximum automorphism order by the maximum automorphism cycle length may be arbitrarily large.

Review text

The paper addresses the question of the influence of the order of an automorphism of a finite group \(G\) on the structure of \(G\). The assumption is that \(G\) has an automorphism of order at least \(\varepsilon | G|\), with \(\varepsilon \in (0, 1)\). It is shown that for \(\varepsilon>\frac{1}{2}\, G\) is abelian and also that if \(\varepsilon > \frac{1}{10}\) then \(G\) is solvable. If \(R(G)\) denotes the solvable radical of \(G\), the general assumption mentioned above implies that \(|G/R(G)|\leq {\varepsilon}^{-1.78}\). These impressive results are obtained using bijective affine maps, finding upper bounds for element orders in wreath products, dealing with semisimple and then simple groups. Another notable general result is Theorem 5.2.5, whose consequence is that the maximum order of an element of the holomorph \(\mathrm{Hol}(G)\) of \(G\) is less than or equal to \(G\). The use of the CFSG seems unavoidable in these kind of questions and that makes the proofs quite technical at times.

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