Abstract:
The article studies finite groups indecomposable to subdirect product of groups (subdirectly irreducible groups), commutator subgroups of which are cyclic subgroups. The article proves that extensions of a primary cyclic group by any subgroup of its automorphisms completely describe the structure of non-primary finite subdirectly irreducible groups with a cyclic commutator subgroup. The following theorem is the main result of this article: a finite non-primary group is subdirectly irreducible with a cyclic commutator subgroup if and only if for some prime number $p\geq 3$ it contains a non-trivial normal cyclic $p$-subgroup that coincides with its centralizer in the group. In addition, it is shown that the requirement of non-primality in the statement of the theorem is essential.
Key words:group, cyclic commutator subgroup, subdirect product of groups, Sylow subgroup, semidirect product of groups, centralizer, group extension, supersolvable group.