Finite 2-groups all of whose nonabelian subgroups are generated with involutions

In this note we determine finite nonabelian 2-groups G all of whose nonabelian subgroups are generated by involutions and show that such groups must be quasi-dihedral. This solves the problem Nr. 1595 for p = 2 in [1].     

Finite p-groups all of whose non-abelian proper subgroups are metacyclic

In this paper, we classify the finite p-groups all of whose non-abelian proper subgroups are metacyclic and answer a question posed by Berkovich. Received: 22 June 2005     

On finite 2-groups all of whose subgroups are mutually isomorphic

In this paper we investigate the title groups which we call isomaximal. We give the list of all isomaximal 2-groups with abelian maximal subgroups. Further, we prove some properties of isomaximal 2-groups with nonabelian maximal subgroups. After that, we investigate the structure of isomaximal groups of order less than 64. Finally, in Theorem 14. we show that the minimal nonmetacyclic group of order 32 possesses a unique isomaximal extension of order 64. This work was supported by Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Republic of Croatia (Grant No. 036-0000000-3223)     

Finite 2-groups with a nonabelian Frattini subgroup of order 16

According to a classical result of Burnside, if G is a finite 2-group, then the Frattini subgroup Φ(G) of G cannot be a nonabelian group of order 8. Here we study the next possible case, where G is a finite 2-group and Φ(G) is nonabelian of order 16. We show that in that case Φ(G) ≅ M × C₂, where M ≅ D₈ or M ≅ Q₈ and we shall classify all such groups G (Theorem A). Received: 16 February 2005; revised: 7 March 2005     

Finite p-groups all of whose non-abelian proper subgroups are generated by two elements

In this paper, we classify the finite p-groups all of whose non-abelian proper subgroups are generated by two elements.     

Finite 2-groups in which distinct nonlinear irreducible characters have distinct kernels

In this paper, we study finite 2-groups in which distinct nonlinear irreducible characters have distinct kernels. We prove several results concerning these groups and completely classify 2-groups with at most five nonlinear irreducible characters satisfying this property.     

Finite a-groups in which all nonmetacyclic subgroups have complements

Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 297–302, May–June, 1988.     

Transitive permutation groups in which all derangements are involutions

Let G be a transitive permutation group in which all derangements are involutions. We prove that G is either an elementary abelian 2-group or is a Frobenius group having an elementary abelian 2-group as kernel. We also consider the analogous problem for abstract groups, and we classify groups G with a proper subgroup H such that every element of G not conjugate to an element of H is an involution.     

Finite p-groups all of whose proper subgroups have small derived subgroups

Let G be a finite p-group.If the order of the derived subgroup of each proper subgroup of G divides pi,G is called a Di-group.In this paper,we give a characterization of all D1-groups.This is an answer to a question introduced by Berkovich.     

Finite p-groups all of whose maximal abelian subgroups are soft

A subgroup A of a p-group G is said to be soft in G if CG(A) = A and |NG(A)/A| = p. In this paper we determined finite p-groups all of whose maximal abelian subgroups are soft; see Theorem A and Proposition 2.4.     

Finite 2-groups whose nonnormal subgroups have orders at most 23

In this paper, we classify finite 2-groups all of whose nonnormal subgroups have orders at most 2³. Together with a known result, we completely solved Problem 2279 proposed by Y. Berkovich and Z. Janko in Groups of Prime Power Order, Vol. 3.     

Finite 2-groups with exactly one nonmetacyclic maximal subgroup

We determine here the structure of the title groups. All such groups G will be given in terms of generators and relations, and many important subgroups of these groups will be described. Let d(G) be the minimal number of generators of G. We have here d(G) ≤ 3 and if d(G) = 3, then G′ is elementary abelian of order at most 4. Suppose d(G) = 2. Then G′ is abelian of rank ≤ 2 and G/G′ is abelian of type (2, 2^m), m ≥ 2. If G′ has no cyclic subgroup of index 2, then m = 2. If G′ is noncyclic and G/Φ(G ₀) has no normal elementary abelian subgroup of order 8, then G′ has a cyclic subgroup of index 2 and m = 2. But the most important result is that for all such groups (with d(G) = 2) we have G = AB, for suitable cyclic subgroups A and B. Conversely, if G = AB is a finite nonmetacyclic 2-group, where A and B are cyclic, then G has exactly one nonmetacyclic maximal subgroup. Hence, in this paper the nonmetacyclic 2-groups which are products of two cyclic subgroups are completely determined. This solves a long-standing problem studied from 1953 to 1956 by B. Huppert, N. Itô and A. Ohara. Note that if G = AB is a finite p-group, p > 2, where A and B are cyclic, then G is necessarily metacyclic (Huppert [4]). Hence, we have solved here problem Nr. 776 from Berkovich [1].     

Finite non-cyclic p -groups whose number of subgroups is minimal

Recent results of Qu and Tărnăuceanu explicitly describe the finite p-groups which are not elementary Abelian and have the property that the number of their subgroups is maximal among p-groups of a given order. We complement these results from the bottom level up by completely determining the non-cyclic finite p-groups whose number of subgroups among p-groups of a given order is minimal.     

Finite 2-groups whose length of chain of nonnormal subgroups is at most 2

Assume that G is a finite non-Dedekind p-group. D. S. Passman introduced the following concept: we say that H₁ < H₂ < ? < H_k is a chain of nonnormal subgroups of G if each H_i ? G and if |H_i : H_i?1| = p for i = 2, 3,…, k. k is called the length of the chain. chn(G) denotes the maximum of the lengths of the chains of nonnormal subgroups of G. In this paper, finite 2-groups G with chn(G) ? 2 are completely classified up to isomorphism.