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On groups satisfying the converse of Lagrange's theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. F. Humphreys
J. F. Humphreys
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Liverpool
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In this article we study certain subclasses of the class ℒ of Lagrangian groups; that is, finite groups G having, for every divisor d of |G|, a subgroup of index d. Two such subclasses, mentioned by McLain in (6), are the class ℒ1 of groups G such that every factor group of G is in ℒ, and the class ℒ2 of groups G such that each subnormal subgroup of G is in ℒ. In section 1 we prove that a group of odd order in ℒ1 is supersoluble, and give some examples of non-supersoluble groups in ℒ1. Section 2 contains several results on the class ℒ2. In particular, it is shown that a group in ℒ2 has an ordered Sylow tower and, after constructing some examples of groups in ℒ2, a result on the rank of a group in ℒ2 is proved (Theorem 4).

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 75 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 25 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1974

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