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A question of C. R. Hobby on regular p-groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

I. D. Macdonald
I. D. Macdonald
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
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In (2) a finite p-group G is said to be nearly regular if it has the following two properties:

(i) There exists a central subgroup Z of order p and G/Z is regular.

(ii) If x ∈ G and y ∈ γ2(G), then gp{x, y} is regular.

Type
Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , June 1973 , pp. 207 - 208
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1973

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