On infinite Frobenius groups
D. V. Lytkinaab,
V. D. Mazurovc,
A. Kh. Zhurtovd a Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences
b Novosibirsk State University
c Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
d Kabardino-Balkar State University
Abstract:
We study the structure of a periodic group
$G$ satisfying the following conditions:
$(F_1)$ The group
$G$ is a semidirect product of a subgroup
$F$ by a subgroup
$H$;
$(F_2)$ $H$ acts freely on
$F$ with respect to conjugation in
$G$, i. e. for
$f\in F$,
$h\in H$ the equality
$f^h=f$ holds only for the cases
$f=1$ or
$h=1$. In other words
$H$ acts on
$F$ as the group of regular automorphisms.
$(F_3)$ The order of every element
$g\in G$ of the form
$g=fh$ with
$f\in F$ and
$1\neq h\in H$ is equal to the order of
$h$; in other words, every non-trivial element of
$H$ induces with respect to conjugation in
$G$ a splitting automorphism of the subgroup
$F$.
$(F_4)$ The subgroup
$H$ is generated by elements of order
$3$. In particular, we show that the rank of every principal factor of the group
$G$ within
$F$ is at most four. If
$G$ is a finite Frobenius group, then the conditions
$(F_1)$ and
$(F_2)$ imply
$(F_3)$. For infinite groups with
$(F_1)$ and
$(F_2)$ the condition
$(F_3)$ may be false, and we say that a group is Frobenius if all three conditions
$(F_1)$–
$(F_3)$ are satisfied. The main result of the paper gives a description of à periodic Frobenius groups with the property
$(F_4)$.
Key words:
periodic group, Frobenius group, free action, splitting automorphism.
UDC:
512.54 Received: 19.01.2018
DOI:
10.23671/VNC.2018.2.14724