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Pseudo Frobenius numbers

Group Theory 2018-12-24 v1

Abstract

For a prime p, we call a positive integer n a Frobenius p-number if there exists a finite group with exactly n subgroups of order p^a for some a0a\ge 0. Extending previous results on Sylow's theorem, we prove in this paper that every Frobenius p-number n1(modp2)n\equiv 1\pmod{p^2} is a Sylow p-number, i.e., the number of Sylow p-subgroups of some finite group. As a consequence, we verify that 46 is a pseudo Frobenius 3-number, that is, no finite group has exactly 46 subgroups of order 3^a for any a0a\ge 0.

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@article{arxiv.1812.08990,
  title  = {Pseudo Frobenius numbers},
  author = {Benjamin Sambale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08990},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages, expository, to appear in Expo. Math

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