Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let $G$ be a finite group and let
$\mathcal{F}$ be a class of groups. Then
${{Z}_{\mathcal{F}\Phi }}\left( G \right)$ is the
$\mathcal{F}\Phi$-hypercentre of
$G$, which is the product of all normal subgroups of
$G$ whose non-Frattini
$G$-chief factors are
$\mathcal{F}$-central in
$G$. A subgroup
$H$ is called
$\mathcal{M}$-supplemented in a finite group
$G$ if there exists a subgroup
$B$ of
$G$ such that
$G\,=\,HB\,\text{and}\,{{H}_{1}}B$ is a proper subgroup of
$G$ for any maximal subgroup
${{H}_{1}}$ of
$H$. The main purpose of this paper is to prove the following: Let
$E$ be a normal subgroup of a group
$G$. Suppose that every noncyclic Sylow subgroup
$P\,\text{of}\,{{F}^{*}}\left( E \right)$ has a subgroup
$D$ such that
$1\,<\,\left| D \right|\,<\left| P \right|$ and every subgroup
$H\,\text{of}\,P$ with order
$\left| H \right|\,=\,\left| D \right|$ is
$\mathcal{M}$-supplemented in
$G$, then
$E\,\le \,{{Z}_{\mathcal{U}\Phi }}\left( G \right)$.
This research is supported by NSFC (Grant #11271016), the Postgraduate Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province (No. CXZZ13–0890), and the Natural Science Fund for Colleges and Universities in Anhui Province (Grant #KJ2013B138).