Prime power coverings of groups

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Auteurs principaux: Giudici, Michael, Morgan, Luke, Praeger, Cheryl E.
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author Giudici, Michael
Morgan, Luke
Praeger, Cheryl E.
author_facet Giudici, Michael
Morgan, Luke
Praeger, Cheryl E.
contents For a finite group $A$ with normal subgroup $G$, a subgroup $U$ of $G$ is an $A$-prime-power-covering subgroup if $U$ meets every $A$-conjugacy-class of elements of $G$ of prime power order. It is conjectured that $|G:U|$ is bounded by some function of $|A:G|$, and this conjecture has number theoretic implications for relative Brauer groups of algebraic number fields. We prove the conjecture in the case that the action of $G$ on the set of right cosets of $U$ in $G$ is innately transitive. This includes the case where $U$ is a maximal subgroup of $G$. The proof uses a new bound on the order of a nonabelian finite simple group in terms of its number of classes of elements of prime power order, which in turn depends on the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups.
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spellingShingle Prime power coverings of groups
Giudici, Michael
Morgan, Luke
Praeger, Cheryl E.
Group Theory
For a finite group $A$ with normal subgroup $G$, a subgroup $U$ of $G$ is an $A$-prime-power-covering subgroup if $U$ meets every $A$-conjugacy-class of elements of $G$ of prime power order. It is conjectured that $|G:U|$ is bounded by some function of $|A:G|$, and this conjecture has number theoretic implications for relative Brauer groups of algebraic number fields. We prove the conjecture in the case that the action of $G$ on the set of right cosets of $U$ in $G$ is innately transitive. This includes the case where $U$ is a maximal subgroup of $G$. The proof uses a new bound on the order of a nonabelian finite simple group in terms of its number of classes of elements of prime power order, which in turn depends on the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups.
title Prime power coverings of groups
topic Group Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15543