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Finite groups with a nilpotent maximal subgroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Zvonimir Janko
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Department of Mathematics, Australian National University, Canberra.
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Let G be a finite group all of whose proper subgroups are nilpotent. Then by a theorem of Schmidt-Iwasawa the group G is soluble. But what can we say about a finite group G is only one maximal subgroup is nilpotent? Let G be a finite group with a nilpotent maximal subgroup M.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1964

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