Sylow subgroups, exponents, and character values

Sylow Subgroups in Parallel

Sylow subgroups are fundamental in the design of asymptotically efficient group-theoretic algorithms, just as they have been in the study of the structure of Ž . finite groups. We present efficient parallel NC algorithms for finding and conjugating Sylow subgroups of permutation groups, as well as for related problems. Polynomial-time solutions to these problems were obtained more than a dozen ...

Some Sylow Subgroups

POS-groups with some cyclic Sylow subgroups

A finite group G is said to be a POS-group if for each x in G the cardinality of the set {y in G | o(y) = o(x)} is a divisor of the order of G. In this paper we study the structure of POS-groups with some cyclic Sylow subgroups.

Principal 2-Blocks and Sylow 2-Subgroups

Let G be a finite group with Sylow 2-subgroup P 6 G. Navarro–Tiep–Vallejo have conjectured that the principal 2-block of NG(P) contains exactly one irreducible Brauer character if and only if all odd-degree ordinary irreducible characters in the principal 2-block of G are fixed by a certain Galois automorphism σ. By recent work of Navarro–Vallejo it suffices to show this conjecture holds for al...

The Sylow Subgroups of the Symmetric Group

In the Sylow theorems f we learn that if the order of a group 2Í is divisible hj pa (p a prime integer) and not by jo*+1, then 31 contains one and only one set of conjugate subgroups of order pa, and any subgroup of 21 whose order is a power of p is a subgroup of some member of this set of conjugate subgroups of 2Í. These conjugate subgroups may be called the Sylow subgroups of 21. It will be o...