Covering monolithic groups with proper subgroups.

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Authors Martino Garonzi

Publication date 9 July 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0743

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupscovering numberscoverings of groupsfinite groupsminimal normal subgroupsmonolithic groupsprimitive groupsunions of subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

Abstract: Given a finite non-cyclic group $G$, call $sigma(G)$ the smallest number of proper subgroups of $G$ needed to cover $G$. Lucchini and Detomi conjectured that if a nonabelian group $G$ is such that $sigma(G)<sigma(G/N)$ for every non-trivial normal subgroup $N$ of $G$ then $G$ is extit{monolithic}, meaning that it admits a unique minimal normal subgroup. In this paper we show how this conjecture can be attacked by the direct study of monolithic groups.

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