A Meier-Wunderli theorem for H_ p-subgroups

DOI10.1007/BF01193989MaRDI QIDQ796638zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors William F. Cody

Publication date 1985

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01193989

zbMATH Keywords

\(H_ p\)-subgroupsfinite metabelian groupsFrobenius kernelsHughes conjecturenilpotency classregular p-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.) (20D25) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

For a group G and a prime p, the subgroup of G generated by the elements of order unequal to p is called the \(H_ p\)-subgroup. Hughes conjectured that whenever \(H_ p(G)\) is a proper subgroup it must have index p. Although in general false, the Hughes conjecture has been verified in many important classes of groups. Much of this work is based on results obtained for the Burnside problem. The work of Hughes and Thompson examining the relationship between \(H_ p\)-subgroups and Frobenius kernels has extended the investigations into questions on the structure of \(H_ p\)-subgroups. In this paper we prove an analogue to a well-known result of Meier-Wunderli on finite metabelian groups of exponent p. Our result establishes sharp bounds on the nilpotency class of proper \(H_ p\)-subgroups in finite metabelian p-groups. In particular, we show that the class of \(H_ p(G) \leq p\) in the general case and that the class of \(H_ p(G) \leq p-2\) when G is a 2-generator group. A significant consequence of the theorem is a proof that the \(H_ p\)-subgroups in this family of groups must be both (p-1)-Engel and regular p-groups.

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• Finite \(p\)-groups
• The Hughes subgroup
• A note on the wielandt subgroup of a metabelianp-group
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• The Wielandt-Hartley theorem for submaximal \(\mathfrak{X}\)-subgroups
• Construction of finite p-groups that admit partitions

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