Title of article :
The Maschke property for the Sylow p-groups of the symmetric group Spn
Author/Authors :
Green ، D. J. - Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena , H ethelyi ، L. - Budapest University of Technology and Economics , Horv ath ، E. - Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Abstract :
In this paper we prove that the Maschke property holds for coprime actions on some important classes of p-groups like: metacyclic p-groups, p-groups of p-rank two for p 3 and some weaker property holds in the case of regular p-groups. The main focus will be the case of coprime actions on the iterated wreath product Pn of cyclic groups of order p, i.e. on Sylow p-subgroups of the symmetric groups Spn, where we also prove that a stronger form of the Maschke property holds. These results contribute to a future possible classification of all p-groups with the Maschke property. We apply these results to describe which normal partition subgroups of Pn have a complement. In the end we also describe abelian subgroups of Pn of largest size.
Keywords :
Maschke s Theorem , coprime action , Sylow p , subgroup of symmetric group , iterated wreath product , uniserial action.
Journal title :
International Journal of Group Theory
Journal title :
International Journal of Group Theory