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Class preserving automorphisms of unitriangular groups

Group Theory 2012-08-16 v2

Abstract

Let UTn(K)\textrm{UT}_n (K) be a unitriangular group over a field KK and Γn,k:=UTn(K)/γk(UTn(K))\Gamma_{n,k} := \textrm{UT}_n (K)/ \gamma_k(\textrm{UT}_n (K)), where γk(UTn(K))\gamma_k (\mathrm{UT}_n(K)) denotes the kk-th term of the lower central series of UTn(K)\mathrm{UT}_n (K), 2kn2 \le k \le n. We prove that the group of all class preserving automorphisms of Γn,k\Gamma_{n,k} is equal to \Inn(Γn,k)\Inn(\Gamma_{n,k}) if and only if KK is a prime field. Let Gn(m):=UTn(Fpm)/γ3(UTn(Fpm))G_n^{(m)} := \mathrm{UT}_n (\mathbb{F}_{p^m}) / \gamma_3 (\mathrm{UT}_n(\mathbb{F}_{p^m})). We calculate the group of all class preserving automorphisms and class preserving outer automorphisms of Gn(m)G_n^{(m)}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.4710,
  title  = {Class preserving automorphisms of unitriangular groups},
  author = {Valeriy Bardakov and Andrei Vesnin and Manoj K. Yadav},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4710},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

19 pages, accepted for publication in International Journal of Algebra and Computation

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