Group Structure via Subgroup Counts
Group Theory
2026-04-10 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
The number of subgroups and the number of cyclic subgroups are natural combinatorial invariants of a finite group. We investigate how restrictions on these quantities, together with the number of distinct prime divisors of , enforce nilpotency, supersolvability, and solvability of . These criteria improve earlier results that relied solely on the total number of subgroups, and they are sharp in the sense that for each bound there exist non-nilpotent (respectively non-supersolvable, non-solvable) groups attaining the bound.
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@article{arxiv.2604.08040,
title = {Group Structure via Subgroup Counts},
author = {Angsuman Das and Hiranya Kishore Dey and Khyati Sharma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08040},
year = {2026}
}
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