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Subgroup closed Fitting classes are formations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. A. Bryce
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra
John Cossey
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra

Extract

Since their introduction by Fischer(12) and Fischer, Gaschütz and Hartley (13) Fitting classes of soluble groups have attracted attention on two fronts (all groups considered in this paper will be finite and soluble). On the one hand is their important role in the structure of finite soluble groups, a good account of which can be found in Gaschütz (14), and on the other is their intrinsic interest as classes of groups. This paper falls into the second category, and is a continuation and completion of (8). There we proved that a subgroup closed Fitting class is a formation if it consists of groups of nilpotent length at most three. Happily, at last, we can remove this qualification.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982

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