Factoring Abelian groups of order .
It is a known result that if a finite abelian group of odd order is a direct product of lacunary cyclic subsets, then at least one of the factors must be a subgroup. The paper gives an elementary proof that does not rely on characters.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20D60,20E15.As is known, if a finite solvable group G is an n-sum group then n − 1 is a prime power. It is an interesting problem in group theory to study for which numbers n with n-1 > 1 and not a prime power there exists a finite n-sum group. In this paper we mainly study finite nonsolvable n-sum groups and show that 15 is the first such number. More precisely, we prove that there exist no finite 11-sum or 13-sum groups and there is indeed a finite 15-sum...
Let be a finite group. We prove that if every self-centralizing subgroup of is nilpotent or subnormal or a TI-subgroup, then every subgroup of is nilpotent or subnormal. Moreover, has either a normal Sylow -subgroup or a normal -complement for each prime divisor of .