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Centralizers of coprime automorphisms of finite groups

Group Theory 2011-12-30 v1

Abstract

Let AA be an elementary abelian group of order pkp^{k} with k3k\geq 3 acting on a finite pp'-group GG. The following results are proved. If γk2(CG(a))\gamma_{k-2}(C_{G}(a)) is nilpotent of class at most cc for any a\in A^{#}, then γk2(G)\gamma_{k-2}(G) is nilpotent and has {c,k,p}\{c,k,p\}-bounded nilpotency class. If, for some integer dd such that 2d+2k2^{d}+2\leq k, the ddth derived group of CG(a)C_{G}(a) is nilpotent of class at most cc for any a\in A^{#}, then the ddth derived group G(d)G^{(d)} is nilpotent and has {c,k,p}\{c,k,p\}-bounded nilpotency class. Earlier this was known only in the case where k4k\leq 4.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5880,
  title  = {Centralizers of coprime automorphisms of finite groups},
  author = {Cristina Acciarri and Pavel Shumyatsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5880},
  year   = {2011}
}

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