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Nilpotent groups acting fixed point freely on solvable groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Beverly J. Bailey
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Department of Pure Mathematics, School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
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Abstract

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All groups considered are finite. We enlarge the class of groups for which the conjecture below is known to hold, to include all nilpotent groups A such that every proper subgroup of A is Zp ˜ Zp free for all primes p.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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