How large a union of proper subgroups of a finite group can be?

Publication date: 19 September 2019

Abstract: Let

k

be a positive integer and

G

be a finite group that cannot be written as the union of

k

proper subgroups. In this short note, we study the existence of a constant

c_{k} i n (0, 1)

such that

| c u p_{i = 1}^{k} H_{i} | l e q c_{k} | G |

, for all proper subgroups

H_{1}

, ...,

H_{k}

of

G

.

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