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H. Meng and A. Ballester-Bolinches.
On a paper of Beltrán and Shao about coprime action.
J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 224(8):106313, 4, 2020.

doi:10.1016/j.jpaa.2020.106313

Abstract

Assume that A and G are finite groups of coprime orders such that A acts on G via automorphisms. Let p be a prime. The following coprime action version of a well-known theorem of Itô about the structure of a minimal non-p-nilpotent groups is proved: if every maximal A-invariant subgroup of G is p-nilpotent, then G is p-soluble. If, moreover, G is not p-nilpotent, then G must be soluble. Some earlier results about coprime action are consequences of this theorem.

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20D10, 20D25

Keywords: finite groups; coprime action; solubility; p-nilpotency