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Saturday, 2 February 2013

Sylow bases - Structural character of Solvable groups

Notation Let p denote the set of all primes other than p.

Let G=pam with p|m, a Sylow p-subgroup P has order pa whereas a Hall p-subgroup H of G has order m. HP=1 and so |G|=|H||P| and G=HP.

Lemma If H,KG and |G:H|,|G:K| are coprime then |G:HK|=|G:H||G:K| (note, this doesn't assume normality).
proof: Put a=|G:H|, b=|G:K|, c=|G:HK|. Since |G:HK|=|G:H||H:HK| we have a|c and similarly b|c thus ab|c. In the other direction we may define a map (HK)x(Hx,Kx):{cosets of HK}{cosets of H}×{cosets of K}
this is well defined since (HK)x=(HK)y iff xy1H and K iff Hx=Hy and Kx=Ky. Since this map is injective cab.

Definition Let G be a group whose order factors into powers of primes p1,,pk. A Sylow basis for G is a collection of Sylow subgroups P1,,Pk such that for all i, Pi is a Sylow pi-subgroup and for all i,j PiPj=PjPi.

Any product of a subset of the Sylow basis will give a Hall π-subgroup and you can get a Hall π-subgroup for any π this way.

Definition Two Sylow bases P and B are said to be conjugate when there exists a single g such that forall i, Pi=Bgi.

Theorem (Hall - 1937) If G is solvable then it has a Sylow basis and any two such bases are conjugate.
proof: (Existence) Let G be a solvable group and write |G|=pa11pakk, let S={1,,k}. For each iS let Qi be a Hall pi-subgroup so |G:Qi|=paii by the previous theorem of Hall. Given any TS the intersection tTQt is a Hall π-subgroup (for the appropriate π={pj|jST}). In particular Pi=tiQt is a Hall {pi}-subgroup (A Sylow pi-subgroup) of G. To see that this gives a basis take i,jS not equal and PiPj=1 by coprimality, therefore we have (considered as sets) |PiPj|=|Pi||Pj|=|PjPi|. Write T=S{pi,pj} then tTQt is a group that contains Pi and Pj hence PiPj and PjPi but |tTQt|=paiipajj as it's a Hall π-group!
(Uniqueness up to conjugacy) Let B1,,Bk be any other Sylow basis for G with (by renumbering) |Bi|=|Pi|. For tinS form the Hall pt-subgroup Ct=ΠitBi. Instead of showing each Bi is conjugate to Pi, we show that each Qi is conjugate to Ci then deduce that. Let d be the number of t such that CtQt, and we prove by induction on d that there exists some g such that for every t, Ct=Qgt: the base case d=0 is trivial. Assume (by renumbering if necessary) that Ct=Qt for all t>d. Write H=t>dQt by the uniqueness up to conjugacy of Hall π-subgroups for solvable groups there exists x such that Cd=Qxd, since Qd contains each Pi except Pd - which lies in H - G=QdH and so x=gh for some gQd, hH. Now Cd=Qghd=Qhd and for t<d Ct=Qt=Qht so there are at most d1 values of t (the t<d) such that CtQt therefore we have by induction zG such that t, Ct=(Qht)z=Qhzt.
Finally for all i, Bi=tiCi=tiQgi=Pgi.

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