Non-abelian groups in which every subgroup is abelian
Non-abelian groups in which every subgroup is abelian
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DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1903-1500650-9
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发表时间:
1903-04
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
G. A. Miller;H. X. Moreno
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作者:
G. A. Miller;H. X. Moreno
Several years ago Dedekind and others investigated the groups in which every subgroup is invariant, and found that the theory of these groups presents remarkably few difficulties except such as are involved in abelian groups. The non-abelian groups in which every subgroup is abelian present a parallel example of simple and general results. The following are some of the most important ones : All such groups are solvable. Their orders cannot be divided by more than two distinct primes. Every commutator is of prime order. When the order ispaqß, (p and q being prime; a, /3> 0), there are just qß subgroups of order pa and there is only one subgroup of order qß . The former are cyclic and the latter is of type (1, 1, 1, •••). When the order is pa, there are just p + 1 subgroups of order p°-~l and none of them involves more than three invariants. If there are three invariants at least one of them must be of order p. Let G represent any non-abelian group in which every subgroup is abelian. We shall first prove that G is solvable. If G is represented as a transitive substitution group it will be either primitive or imprimitive. In the latter case it will be isomorphic with some primitive group P.-f The subgroup of G which corresponds to identity in P is abelian and every subgroup of P is abelian. The group G is solvable whenever P is solvable. Hence it remains to prove that a non-abelian primitive group P in which every subgroup is abelian is always solvable. Let A*, be the subgroup of P which is composed of all the substitutions omitting a given letter. Since P is non-regular,J P includes at least one substitution besides the identity. If two conjugates of Px had a common substitution besides the identity, this substitution would be invariant under P, since Px is a maximal subgroup of P. Hence P must be of class n — 1, n being the degree ofA\ Therefore P contains an invariant subgroup of order w, § with respect to which the quotient group is simply isomorphic with Px. As