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Frobenius normal two complement for S_3
Example
Let be the symmetric group on and let (The finite symmetric group , one-line notation, and cycle notation). Then:
- is a normal -complement of , so that is -nilpotent (Normal p complement and p nilpotent group, The alternating group of even permutations);
- for a Sylow -subgroup of the only nontrivial -local normalizer with is itself, so there is one such normalizer for fixed . As varies, these are the three subgroups of order , forming one conjugacy class (P local normalizer for normal complement theory); each is a finite -group, hence -nilpotent with trivial normal -complement;
- a Sylow -subgroup of controls its own element fusion (Control of fusion in a sylow p subgroup).
Consequently all three conditions of the Frobenius normal -complement theorem hold for , in accordance with Frobenius normal p complement theorem.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The symmetric group and the prime .
Elements, conjugacy classes and order- subgroups of : one-line notation identifies the permutations of with the lists whose entries are each occurring once, so and ; conjugation relabels the entries of a cycle, and , so the conjugacy classes are , and ; and the conjugates of are exactly the three subgroups of order (The finite symmetric group , one-line notation, and cycle notation, Conjugating a cycle relabels each entry: , as a Frobenius group).
Sylow and subgroup order facts: , so the exact power of dividing is , and every subgroup of order is a Sylow -subgroup; a subgroup of has order dividing , so every -subgroup of has order or ; a group of order is a finite -group (Sylow -subgroups of a finite group, Lagrange's theorem: for every subgroup of a finite group , A finite -group has order for a prime and some , Every subgroup of a finite -group has order a power of ).
Normal -complement: a normal subgroup with and a power of is a normal -complement of ; the trivial subgroup has order , which is prime to every , and if is a finite -group then is a normal -complement because is a power of (Normal p complement and p nilpotent group, Sylow -subgroups of a finite group, A finite -group has order for a prime and some , Lagrange's theorem: for every subgroup of a finite group ).
Local normalizers and fusion: for with the normalizer is the local subgroup of the theory; and controls fusion in with respect to when every -conjugacy between two elements of is realized by an element of (P local normalizer for normal complement theory, Control of fusion in a sylow p subgroup, The conjugacy class and centralizer of an element, Conjugation is an automorphism).
Frobenius normal -complement theorem: for a finite group , a prime and , the conditions (a) has a normal -complement, (b) every with has a normal -complement, and (c) controls fusion in , are equivalent (Frobenius normal p complement theorem).
Verification
is a subgroup of of order by [F1], hence is a Sylow -subgroup of by [F3].
is normal in of order by [F2], so and is a power of by [F1] and [F3]; hence is a normal -complement of by [F4]. This is assertion 1.
Let be a -subgroup of . By [F3] the order of divides , so ; hence the only nontrivial -local normalizer with respect to is . By [F1] the conjugates of are the three distinct subgroups of order of , and means , which holds exactly for , that is : for this fixed , condition (b) contains only . Varying yields three conjugate subgroups, each equal to its own normalizer.
We show that controls fusion in with respect to . Let and with . If then with . If then by [F1], and is a transposition, hence lies in the conjugacy class of by [F1]; as we get . In both cases is conjugate to by an element of . This is assertion 3.
Each of these local normalizers is a group of order , hence a finite -group by [F3]; therefore its trivial subgroup is a normal -complement by [F4].
By step 1.2 condition (a) holds, by steps 2.1 and 3.1 condition (b) holds, and by step 2.2 condition (c) holds; in accordance with [F6] the three equivalent conditions of the Frobenius normal -complement theorem are satisfied for . ∎
Depends on
- $S_3$ as a Frobenius group
- Frobenius normal p complement theorem
- Normal p complement and p nilpotent group
- P local normalizer for normal complement theory
- Control of fusion in a sylow p subgroup
- Sylow $p$-subgroups of a finite group
- The finite symmetric group $S_n$, one-line notation, and cycle notation
- Conjugating a cycle relabels each entry: $g(a_1\,\ldots\,a_k)g^{-1}=(g(a_1)\,\ldots\,g(a_k))$
- The alternating group $A_n=\ker(\operatorname{sgn})$ of even permutations
- $A_n$ is normal in $S_n$; for $n\ge2$, $2\,|A_n|=n!$, while $A_n=S_n$ for $n=0,1$
- Normal subgroup: invariance under conjugation
- Subgroup
- Lagrange's theorem: $|G|=[G:H]|H|$ for every subgroup $H$ of a finite group $G$
- Every subgroup of a finite $p$-group has order a power of $p$
- A finite $p$-group has order $p^n$ for a prime $p$ and some $n\in\mathbb N$
- The conjugacy class $\operatorname{Cl}_G(x)$ and centralizer $C_G(x)$ of an element
- Conjugation $x\mapsto gxg^{-1}$ is an automorphism
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Sources
- Paul Flavell, An Introduction to Transfer and Fusion in Finite Groups, §§2–5 (standard reference, not scraped)
- David Craven, Finite Group Theory, Lecture 3 (standard reference, not scraped)