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A note on Oliver's p-group conjecture

Group Theory 2019-05-17 v1

Abstract

Let SS be a pp-group for an odd prime pp, Oliver proposed the conjecture that the Thompson subgroup J(S)J(S) is always contained in the Oliver subgroup X(S)\mathfrak{X}(S). That means he conjectured that J(S)X(S):X(S)=1|J(S)\mathfrak{X}(S):\mathfrak{X}(S)|=1. Let X1(S)\mathfrak{X}_1(S) be a subgroup of SS such that X1(S)/X(S)\mathfrak{X}_1(S)/\mathfrak{X}(S) is the center of S/X(S)S/\mathfrak{X}(S). In this short note, we prove that J(S)X(S)J(S)\leq \mathfrak{X}(S) if and only if J(S)X1(S)J(S)\leq \mathfrak{X}_1(S). As an easy application, we prove that J(S)X(S):X(S)p|J(S)\mathfrak{X}(S):\mathfrak{X}(S)|\neq p.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.02756,
  title  = {A note on Oliver's p-group conjecture},
  author = {Xingzhong Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02756},
  year   = {2019}
}

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