In this article we introduce and study the concept of characteristic degree of a subgroup in a finite group. We define the characteristic degree of a subgroup H in a finite group G as the ratio of the number of all pairs (h,α) ∈ H×Aut(G) such that h^α∈H, by the order of H × Aut(G), where Aut(G) is the automorphisms group of G. This quantity measures the probability that H can be characteristic ...

In this paper we enumerate fuzzy subgroups, up to a natural equivalence, of some finite abelian p-groups of rank two where p is any prime number. After obtaining the number of maximal chains of subgroups, we count fuzzy subgroups using inductive arguments. The number of such fuzzy subgroups forms a polynomial in p with pleasing combinatorial coefficients. By exploiting the order, we label the s...

We determine the upper central series of the maximal normal p–subgroup of the automorphism group of a bounded abelian p–group.

it is shown that there are exactly seventy-eight 3-generator 2-groups of order $2^{11}$ with trivial schur multiplier. we then give 3-generator, 3-relation presentations for forty-eight of them proving that these groups have deficiency zero.

The Dade group D(P ) of a finite p-group P , formed by equivalence classes of endopermutation modules, is a finitely generated abelian group. Its torsion-free rank equals the number of conjugacy classes of non-cyclic subgroups of P and it is conjectured that every nontrivial element of its torsion subgroup D(P ) has order 2, (or also 4, in case p = 2). The group D(P ) is closely related to the ...

Let G be an abelian p-group sum of finite homocyclic groups Gi. Here, we determine in which cases the automorphism group of G splits over kerσ, where σ :Aut(G) → ∏ iAut(Gi/pGi) is the natural epimorphism. 1. Preliminaries Throghout this paper, p is an arbitrary prime and r is a fixed ordinal number. Let G = ⊕i≤rGi be an abelian p-group, such that Gi is an homocyclic group of exponent pi and fin...

Many common finite p-groups admit automorphisms of order coprime to p, and when p is odd, it is reasonably difficult to find finite p-groups with automorphism group a p-group. Yet the goal of this paper is to prove that almost all finite p-groups do have automorphism group a p-group when p is odd. The asymptotic sense in which the theorem holds involves bounding the Frattini length of the p-gro...