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GROUPS WITH FEW NONPOWER SUBGROUPS

Part of: Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2023

JIWEI ZHENG Open the ORCID record for JIWEI ZHENG [Opens in a new window] ,
WEI ZHOU Open the ORCID record for WEI ZHOU [Opens in a new window]  and
D. E. TAYLOR Open the ORCID record for D. E. TAYLOR [Opens in a new window]
JIWEI ZHENG
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chonqing 400715, P.R. China e-mail: 1179157500@qq.com
WEI ZHOU*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chonqing 400715, P.R. China
D. E. TAYLOR
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia e-mail: Donald.Taylor@sydney.edu.au
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e-mail: zh_great@swu.edu.cn
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Abstract

For a group G and $m\ge 1$, let $G^m$ denote the subgroup generated by the elements $g^m$, where g runs through G. The subgroups not of the form $G^m$ are the nonpower subgroups of G. We classify the groups with at most nine nonpower subgroups.

Keywords

counting subgroupspower subgroupsnonpower subgroups

MSC classification

Primary: 20D25: Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.)
Secondary: 20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 109 , Issue 3 , June 2024 , pp. 529 - 540
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11971391, 12071376).

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