Two Criteria for Nonsimplicity of a Group Possessing a Strongly Embedded Subgroup and a Finite Involution

A proper subgroup H of a group G is said to be strongly embedded if 2 (H) and 2(HH^g) (for all ). An involution i of G is said to be finite if (for all g G). As is known, the structure of a (locally) finite group possessing a strongly embedded subgroup is determined by the theorems of Burnside and Brauer--Suzuki, provided that the Sylow 2-subgroup contains a unique involution. In this paper, sufficient conditions for the equality m₂(G)= 1 are established, and two analogs of the Burnside and Brauer—Suzuki theorems for infinite groups G possessing a strongly embedded subgroup and a finite involution are given.