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Frobenius kernel closure is the content of the theorem
Statement
Let be a finite Frobenius group with complement and let
be the associated candidate kernel set (Frobenius kernel set, Frobenius complement and frobenius group). Then is defined by a membership condition on individual elements: means that or that lies in no conjugate of . Nothing in the definition asserts that is closed under products, and the counting statement , of Frobenius kernel cardinality likewise says nothing about products of elements of .
The remark. The passage from this candidate set to a subgroup is not formal; it is the content of the Frobenius kernel theorem (Frobenius kernel theorem), which proves that is a normal subgroup of by character-theoretic means. In particular, the theorem is not a consequence of the cardinality computation, and a proof of the kernel theorem must somewhere use more than the definition of and the orbit-counting identities.
Remarks
The reason no product closure is available for free is that is described by a negative condition on conjugation, while a product of two elements avoiding every conjugate of need not avoid them; the subgroups are numerous and the description of quantifies over all of them. This is visible already in the smallest case with , where the kernel is ( as a Frobenius group): the two nonidentity elements of are -cycles, and the product of either one with itself is the other, while their mutual product is the identity, so closure holds there — but this is a computation in one group, not a general structural reason.
Conversely, the reverse implication is immediate: if a normal subgroup with , and is exhibited by other means, then is the Frobenius kernel by the uniqueness statement of Frobenius semidirect product decomposition. The character-theoretic theorem is exactly the tool that produces such a from the Frobenius condition alone.
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Sources
- Alex Bartel, Introduction to Representation Theory of Finite Groups, §6.1 (standard reference, not scraped)