Glasnik Matematicki, Vol. 43, No.1 (2008), 111-120.

SOME PECULIAR MINIMAL SITUATIONS BY FINITE p-GROUPS

Zvonimir Janko

Mathematical Institute, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
e-mail: janko@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de

Abstract.   In this paper we show that a finite p-group which possesses non-normal subgroups and such that any two non-normal subgroups of the same order are conjugate must be isomorphic to

Mpn = < a,b | apn-1 = bp = 1, n ≥ 3, ab = a1+pn-2 >,

where in case p = 2 we must have n ≥ 4. This solves Problem Nr. 1261 stated by Y. Berkovich in [1]. In a similar way we solve Problem Nr. 1582 from [1] by showing that Mpn is the only finite p-group with exactly one conjugate class of non-normal cyclic subgroups.

Then we determine up to isomorphism all finite p-groups which possess non-normal subgroups and such that the normal closure HG of each non-normal subgroup H of G is the largest possible, i.e., |G : HG| = p. It turns out that G is either the nonabelian group of order p3, p > 2, and exponent p or G is metacyclic. This solves the Problem Nr. 1164 stated by Berkovich [1].

We classify also finite 2-groups with exactly two conjugate classes of four-subgroups. As a result, we get three classes of such 2-groups. This solves Problem Nr. 1260 stated by Y.Berkovich in [1].

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification.   20D15.

Key words and phrases.   Minimal nonabelian p-groups, metacyclic p-groups, 2-groups of maximal class, central products, Hamiltonian 2-groups.

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DOI: 10.3336/gm.43.1.08

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