Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
The pronorm of a group G is the set
$P(G)$
of all elements
$g\in G$
such that X and
$X^g$
are conjugate in
${\langle {X,X^g}\rangle }$
for every subgroup X of G. In general the pronorm is not a subgroup, but we give evidence of some classes of groups in which this property holds. We also investigate the structure of a generalised soluble group G whose pronorm contains a subgroup of finite index.
The authors are members of GNSAGA-INdAM and ADV-AGTA. This work was carried out within the ‘VALERE: VAnviteLli pEr la RicErca’ project.