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Characterization of cyclic Schur groups

Combinatorics 2015-05-07 v2

Abstract

A finite group GG is called a Schur group, if any Schur ring over GG is the transitivity module of a permutation group on the set GG containing the regular subgroup of all right translations. It was proved by R. P\"oschel (1974) that given a prime p5p\ge 5 a pp-group is Schur if and only if it is cyclic. We prove that a cyclic group of order nn is a Schur group if and only if nn belongs to one of the following five (partially overlapped) families of integers: pkp^k, pqkpq^k, 2pqk2pq^k, pqrpqr, 2pqr2pqr where p,q,rp,q,r are distinct primes, and k0k\ge 0 is an integer.

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@article{arxiv.1111.5216,
  title  = {Characterization of cyclic Schur groups},
  author = {Sergei Evdokimov and István Kovács and Ilya Ponomarenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5216},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

the second version; the proof was substantially improved; 29 pages

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