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Finite groups with short nonnormal chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Armond E. Spencer
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Potsdam, New York, 13676, U.S.A.
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This note is a continuation of the author's work [6], describing the structure of a finite group given some information about the distribution of the subnormal subgroups in the lattice of all subgoups.

DEFINITION. An upper chain of length n in the finite group G is a sequence of subgroups of G; G = Go > G1 > … > Gn, such that for each i, Gi is a maximal subgroup of Gi-1. Let h(G) = n if every upper chain in G of length n contains a proper ( ≠ G) subnormal entry, and there is at least one upper chain in G of length (n – 1) which contains no proper subnormal entry.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1974

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