Finite groups and their coprime automorphisms
Authors:
Emerson de Melo and Pavel Shumyatsky
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 145 (2017), 3755-3760
MSC (2010):
Primary 20D45
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13550
Published electronically:
March 27, 2017
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Abstract: Let be a prime and
a finite group of exponent
acting by automorphisms on a finite
-group
. Assume that
has order at least
and
is nilpotent of class at most
for any
. It is shown that
is nilpotent with class bounded solely in terms of
and
.
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Emerson de Melo
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Brasília, Brasília-DF, 70910-900, Brazil
Email:
emerson@mat.unb.br
Pavel Shumyatsky
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Brasília, Brasília-DF, 70910-900, Brazil
Email:
pavel@unb.br
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13550
Keywords:
$p$-groups,
automorphisms,
fixed-point
Received by editor(s):
June 3, 2016
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
September 19, 2016, October 7, 2016, and October 12, 2016
Published electronically:
March 27, 2017
Additional Notes:
This research was supported by FAPDF and CNPq-Brazil
Communicated by:
Pham Huu Tiep
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