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The action of automorphisms on the cohomology of a p-group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1999

PETER SYMONDS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD; e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

The automorphism group of a p-group acts naturally on the mod-p cohomology of the group. This action need not be faithful, but we show that it contains every simple module as a composition factor.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999

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