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Finite Groups Which Admit An Automorphism With Few Orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Daniel Gorenstein
Daniel Gorenstein*
Affiliation:
Clark University
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In the course of investigating the structure of finite groups which have a representation in the form ABA, for suitable subgroups A and B, we have been forced to study groups G which admit an automorphism ϕ such that every element of G lies in at least one of the orbits under ϕ of the elements g, gϕr(g), gϕrϕ(g)ϕ2r(g), gϕr(g)ϕr2r(g)ϕ3r(g), etc., where g is a fixed element of G and r is a fixed integer.

In a previous paper on ABA-groups written jointly with I. N. Herstein (4), we have treated the special case r = 0 (in which case every element of G can be expressed in the form ϕi(gj)), and have shown that if the orders of ϕ and g are relatively prime, then G is either Abelian or the direct product of an Abelian group of odd order and the quaternion group of order 8.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 12 , 1960 , pp. 73 - 100
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1960

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