p-groups with a unique proper non-trivial characteristic subgroup.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2011.10.005MaRDI QIDQ411753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Csaba Schneider, S. P. Glasby, Péter P. Pálfy

Publication date 30 April 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4084

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupscharacteristic subgroupsfinite \(p\)-groupsUCS-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.) (20D25) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Automorphisms of abstract finite groups (20D45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: We consider the structure of finite $p$-groups $G$ having precisely three characteristic subgroups, namely $1$, $Phi(G)$ and $G$. The structure of $G$ varies markedly depending on whether $G$ has exponent $p$ or $p^2$, and, in both cases, the study of such groups raises deep problems in representation theory. We present classification theorems for 3- and 4-generator groups, and we also study the existence of such $r$-generator groups with exponent $p^2$ for various values of $r$. The automorphism group induced on the Frattini quotient is, in various cases, related to a maximal linear group in Aschbacher's classification scheme.

Review text

A group \(G\) is said to be a `UCS-group', if it is nonabelian and has exactly one non-trivial characteristic subgroup. In [\textit{D. R. Taunt}, Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 51, 25-36 (1955; Zbl 0064.02402)], the nonnilpotent solvable UCS-groups were considered. D. Taunt intended to describe UCS \(p\)-groups. As the reviewed paper shows this is an enormously difficult problem.NEWLINENEWLINE In this paper the UCS \(p\)-groups \(G\), mostly for \(p>2\), are considered. Such \(G\) must be special, i.e., \(Z(G)=G'=\Phi(G)\). For example, a Sylow \(2\)-subgroup of the simple Suzuki group \(Sz(8)\) is a UCS-group. More detailed results are obtained for the case \(d(G)\leq 4\), and even this case is non-trivial, unless \(d(G)=2\) (in the last case \(G\) is either \(Q_8\) or of order \(p^3\) and exponent \(p>2\)). In case \(\exp(G)=p^2\), \(p>2\), it is possible to say more (in that case, \(|G|=p^{2d(G)}\)).

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