On the divisibility of \#(,G) by |G|.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2011.09.040MaRDI QIDQ420729zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cameron McA. Gordon, Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas

Publication date 23 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.6066

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsnumbers of subgroups of given indexrepresentation spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99)

Abstract: We extend and reformulate a result of Solomon on the divisibility of the title. We show, for example, that if $Gamma$ is a finitely generated group, then $|G|$ divides $$ for every finite group $G$ if and only if $Gamma$ has infinite abelianization. As a consequence we obtain some arithmetic properties of the number of subgroups of a given index in such a group $Gamma$.

Review text

In this paper a result of \textit{L. Solomon} [Arch. Math. 20, 241-247 (1969; Zbl 0205.03003)] is extended and reformulated. Among the results obtained the authors show that if \(\Gamma\) is a finitely generated group then \(|G|\) divides \(\#\Hom(\Gamma,G)\) for every finite group \(G\) if and only if \(\Gamma/\Gamma'\) is infinite. One consequence is that certain arithmetic properties of the number of subgroups of a given index in such a \(\Gamma\) are obtained. Here \(\#\Hom(\Gamma,G)\) denotes the cardinality of the set \(\Hom(\Gamma,G)\).

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