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We consider 3-manifolds admitting the action of an involution such that its space of orbits is homeomorphic to $S^3.$ Such involutions are called hyperelliptic as the manifolds admitting such an action. We consider finite groups acting on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Mattia Mecchia

We show that many $2$-dimensional Artin groups are residually finite. This includes $3$-generator Artin groups with labels $\geq 4$ except for $(2m+1, 4,4)$ for any $m\geq 2$. As a first step towards residual finiteness we show that these…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Kasia Jankiewicz

We complete the classification of the finite special linear groups $\SL_n(q)$ which are $(2,3)$-generated, i.e., which are generated by an involution and an element of order $3$. This also gives the classification of the finite simple…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Marco Antonio Pellegrini

The proper subgroup $B$ of the group $G$ is called {\it strongly embedded}, if $2\in\pi(B)$ and $2\notin\pi(B \cap B^g)$ for any element $g \in G \setminus B $ and, therefore, $ N_G(X) \leq B$ for any 2-subgroup $ X \leq B $. An element $a$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Anatoliy Sozutov

We will show that every element of a finitely generated abelian group is automorphically equivalent what we will define to be a {\em representative element} in a {\em repeat-free subgroup}, and for finite abelian groups we can count the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-12 Charles F. Rocca

In this article we introduce and study a class of finite groups for which the orders of normal subgroups satisfy a certain inequality. It is closely connected to some well-known arithmetic classes of natural numbers.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Marius Tărnăuceanu

We construct a family of finitely generated infinite periodic groups. The basic example is a 2-group, called the tetrahedron group. We generalize the construction by suggesting a family of infinite finitely generated dice groups. We provide…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Victor Petrogradsky

We prove by using simple number-theoretic arguments formulae concerning the number of elements of a fixed order and the number of cyclic subgroups of a direct product of several finite cyclic groups. We point out that certain multiplicative…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-08 László Tóth

We give a complete and irredundant list of the finite groups $G$ for which Aut$(G)$, acting naturally on $G$, has precisely $3$ orbits. There are 7 infinite families: one abelian, one non-nilpotent, three families of non-abelian $2$-groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Stephen P. Glasby

The role of finite centralizers of involutions in pseudo-finite groups is analyzed. It is shown that a pseudo-finite group admitting a definable involutory automorphism fixing only finitely many elements is finite-by-abelian-by-finite. As a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Nadja Hempel , Daniel Palacin

We consider 3-manifolds admitting the action of an involution such that its space of orbits is homeomorphic to $S^3.$ Such involutions are called \textit{hyperelliptic} as the manifolds admitting such an action. We prove that the sectional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Max Leopold Frisch Sbarra , Mattia Mecchia

Let $o(G)$ be the average order of a finite group $G$. We show that if $o(G)<c$, where $c\in \lbrace \frac{13}{6}, \frac{11}{4}\rbrace$, then $G$ is an elementary abelian 2-group or a solvable group, respectively. Also, we prove that the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Mihai-Silviu Lazorec , Marius Tărnăuceanu

A recurring theme in finite group theory is understanding how the structure of a finite group is determined by the arithmetic properties of group invariants. There are results in the literature determining the structure of finite groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Christopher A. Schroeder , Hung P. Tong-Viet

Here we show that a finite nilpotent group is 2-closed if and only if it is either cyclic or a direct product of a generalized quaternion group with a cyclic group of odd order.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Alireza Abdollahi , Majid Arezoomand

Suppose $C(G)$ denotes the set of all cyclic subgroups of a finite group $G$, and $\mathcal{O}_{2}(G)$ denotes the number of elements of order $2$ in $G$. In [Marius T., Finite groups with a certain number of cyclic subgroups. The American…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Vaibhav Chhajer , Sumana Hatui , Palash Sharma

We construct the first example of a finitely-presented, residually-finite group that contains an infinite sequence of non-isomorphic finitely-presented subgroups such that each of the inclusion maps induces an isomorphism of profinite…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Martin R. Bridson

An $integral$ of a group $G$ is a group $H$ whose commutator subgroup is isomorphic to $G$. This paper continues the investigation on integrals of groups started in the work arXiv:1803.10179. We study: (1) A sufficient condition for a bound…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 João Araújo , Peter J. Cameron , Carlo Casolo , Francesco Matucci , Claudio Quadrelli

We study a conjecture by Deaconescu on the solubility of finite groups with claims that if more than half of the elements in a finite group has the same order $k$, then the group is soluble. We show that the original conjecture fails by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Ryan McCulloch , Lee Tae Young

There is a well-known classification of conjugacy classes of involutions in finite Coxeter groups, in terms of subsets of nodes of their Coxeter graphs. In many cases, the product of an involution with the longest element is again an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Marcus Zibrowius

We determine upper bounds for the maximum order of an element of a finite almost simple group with socle T in terms of the minimum index m(T) of a maximal subgroup of T: for T not an alternating group we prove that, with finitely many…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-23 Simon Guest , Joy Morris , Cheryl Praeger , Pablo Spiga