Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2022
We describe finite soluble nonnilpotent groups in which every minimal nonnilpotent subgroup is abnormal. We also show that if G is a nonsoluble finite group in which every minimal nonnilpotent subgroup is abnormal, then G is quasisimple and $Z(G)$ is cyclic of order $|Z(G)|\in \{1, 2, 3, 4\}$ .
Research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12171126 and 12101166) and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 621RC510). Research of the third author was supported by Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (Grant 20211328).