CN-group

In mathematics, in the area of algebra known as group theory, a more than fifty-year effort was made to answer a conjecture of (Burnside 1911): are all groups of odd order solvable? Progress was made by showing that CA-groups, groups in which the centralizer of a non-identity element is abelian, of odd order are solvable (Suzuki 1957). Further progress was made showing that CN-groups, groups in which the centralizer of a non-identity element is nilpotent, of odd order are solvable (Feit, Hall & Thompson 1961). The complete solution was given in (Feit & Thompson 1963), but further work on CN-groups was done in (Suzuki 1961), giving more detailed information about the structure of these groups. For instance, a non-solvable CN-group G is such that its largest solvable normal subgroup O∞(G) is a 2-group, and the quotient is a group of even order.

This article is about mathematics. For the sports car classification, see Group CN. For the media group, see CN Group. For the Canadian corporate group, see Canadian National. For the cyano-group, see cyanide.

Examples

Solvable CN groups include

  • Nilpotent groups
  • Frobenius groups whose Frobenius complement is nilpotent
  • 3-step groups, such as the symmetric group S4

Non-solvable CN groups include:

  • The Suzuki simple groups
  • The groups PSL2(F2n) for n>1
  • The group PSL2(Fp) for p>3 a Fermat prime or Mersenne prime.
  • The group PSL2(F9)
  • The group PSL3(F4)
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References
  • Burnside, William (2004) [1911], Theory of groups of finite order, pp. 503 (note M), ISBN 978-0-486-49575-0
  • Feit, Walter; Thompson, John G.; Hall, Marshall, Jr. (1960), "Finite groups in which the centralizer of any non-identity element is nilpotent", Math. Z., 74 (1): 1–17, doi:10.1007/BF01180468, MR 0114856
  • Feit, Walter; Thompson, John G. (1963), "Solvability of groups of odd order", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 13: 775–1029, ISSN 0030-8730, MR 0166261
  • Suzuki, Michio (1957), "The nonexistence of a certain type of simple groups of odd order", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, 8 (4): 686–695, doi:10.2307/2033280, JSTOR 2033280, MR 0086818
  • Suzuki, Michio (1961), "Finite groups with nilpotent centralizers", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, 99 (3): 425–470, doi:10.2307/1993556, JSTOR 1993556, MR 0131459


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