Two-Groups in Which an Automorphism Inverts Precisely Half the Elements

DOI10.1112/S0024609397004025MaRDI QIDQ4265955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Hegarty, D. MacHale

Publication date 12 April 2000

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/s0024609397004025

zbMATH Keywords

1/2-groups2-groupsAbelian subgroups of index fourautomorphismsautomorphisms inverting elementsfinite groupsisoclinism familiesstem groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Automorphisms of abstract finite groups (20D45) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Review text

A finite group \(G\) is called a 1/2-group if \(G\) possesses an automorphism which sends exactly \(1/2\cdot|G|\) elements of \(G\) into their inverses. \textit{P. Fitzpatrick} [Proc. R. Ir. Acad., Sect. A 86, 81-89 (1986; Zbl 0603.20021)] studied 1/2-groups which are not 2-groups. The paper under review contains the complete classification of those 2-groups which are 1/2-groups. These groups constitute 10 isoclinism families (a stem group is indicated for each family). All these groups possess an Abelian subgroup of index four, but no Abelian subgroup of smaller index (Lemma 1), which constitutes the starting point for the proof of the classification.

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