Covers and normal covers of finite groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2014.08.046MaRDI QIDQ471878zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martino Garonzi, Andrea Lucchini

Publication date 17 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1775

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classescovering numberscoverings of groupscovers of groupsfinite permutation groupsfinite simple groupsminimal normal subgroupsnormal coversunions of subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Maximal subgroups (20E28) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Abstract: For a finite non cyclic group $G$, let $gamma(G)$ be the smallest integer $k$ such that $G$ contains $k$ proper subgroups $H_1,dots,H_k$ with the property that every element of $G$ is contained in $H_i^g$ for some $iin1,dots,k$ and $ginG.$ We prove that if $G$ is a noncyclic permutation group of degree $n,$ then $gamma(G)leq(n+2)/2.$ We then investigate the structure of the groups $G$ with $gamma(G)=sigma(G)$ (where $sigma(G)$ is the size of a minimal cover of $G$) and of those with $gamma(G)=2.$

Review text

For a noncyclic finite group \(G\), let \(\gamma(G)\) be the smallest positive integer \(k\) such that \(G\) can be written as set-theoretical union of the conjugates of \(k\) suitably chosen proper subgroups. As \(G\) is never the union of all conjugates of one proper subgroup, one has \(\gamma(G)>1\). It is shown (Theorem 4) that for a permutation group \(G\) of degree \(n\), one has \(\gamma(G)\leq (n+2)/2\). Moreover (Theorem 5), groups \(G\) with \(\gamma(G)=2\) are discussed: Assume that, in addition, \(\gamma(G/N)>2\) for every nontrivial normal subgroup \(N\). Then \(G\) has a unique minimal normal subgroup \(S\). If \(G\) is covered by the conjugates of two maximal subgroups, then either one of them must contain \(S\), or \(G\) is almost simple. In the final section, a number of examples for groups \(G\) with \(\gamma(G)=2\) are given, showing that a complete classification of these groups may well be difficult. The paper contains a number of other results relating \(\gamma(G)\) to the covering number \(\sigma(G)\).

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