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On products of groups and indices not divisible by a given prime

Group Theory 2020-05-08 v1

Abstract

Let the group G=ABG = AB be the product of subgroups AA and BB, and let pp be a prime. We prove that pp does not divide the conjugacy class size (index) of each pp-regular element of prime power order xABx\in A\cup B if and only if GG is pp-decomposable, i.e. G=Op(G)×Op(G)G=O_p(G) \times O_{p'}(G).

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@article{arxiv.2005.03608,
  title  = {On products of groups and indices not divisible by a given prime},
  author = {María-José Felipe and Lev S. Kazarin and Ana Martínez-Pastor and Víctor Sotomayor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03608},
  year   = {2020}
}