On groups of exponent 36

Locally finiteness is proved for a group of exponent 36 containing an involution and no elements of order 6.     

On certain algebras associated with finite groups

We construct new types of algebras which take into account the block structure of finite groups. We study the construction of such algebras. It is proved that the number of irreducible components of such an algebra is equal to the number of p blocks of the finite group whose defective groups contain a given p-element defined by the algebra. If the p-element is the unit, then the number of irreducible components is equal to the number of p-blocks of the finite group.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, Nos. 7 and 8, pp. 901–911, July–August, 1991.     

On the Artin exponent of some rational groups

A finite group G is called rational if all its irreducible complex characters are rational valued. In this paper, we show that if G is a direct product of finitely many rational Frobenius groups then every rationally represented character of G is a generalized permutation character. Also we show that the same assertion holds when G is a solvable rational group with a Sylow 2-subgroup isomorphic to the dihedral group of order 8 and an abelian normal Sylow 3-subgroup.     

On certain residually finite groups

In this paper we will give necessary and sufficient conditions under which A ⊕ B = A ⊕ C implies B and C are comparable relative to ≤ for all finitely generated projective modules A, B and C over a regular ring     

On finite groups with a certain number of centralizers

LetG be a finite group and #Cent(G) denote the number of centralizers of its elements.G is calledn-centralizer if #Cent(G)=n, and primitiven-centralizer if #Cent(G)=#Cent(G/Z(G))=n. In this paper we investigate the structure of finite groups with at most 21 element centralizers. We prove that such a group is solvable and ifG is a finite group such thatG/Z(G)?A₅, then #Cent(G)=22 or 32. Moroever, we prove that A₅ is the only finite simple group with 22 centralizers. Therefore we obtain a characterization of A₅ in terms of the number of centralizers     

On certain cohomological invariants of groups

Let R be a left and right ℵ₀-Noetherian ring. We show that if all projective left and all projective right R-modules have finite injective dimension, then all injective left and all injective right R-modules have finite projective dimension. Using this result, we prove that the invariants and , which were introduced by Gedrich and Gruenberg (1987) [15], are equal for any group G. As an application of the latter equality, we show that a group G is finite if and only if , where is the generalized cohomological dimension of groups introduced by Ikenaga (1984) [21].     

OD-Characterization of certain four dimensional linear groups with related results concerning degree patterns

The prime graph of a finite group G, which is denoted by GK(G), is a simple graph whose vertex set is comprised of the prime divisors of |G| and two distinct prime divisors p and q are joined by an edge if and only if there exists an element of order pq in G. Let p₁2<?<p_k be all prime divisors of |G|. Then the degree pattern of G is defined as D(G) = (degG(p₁), degG(p₂), ? , degG(p_k)), where degG(p) signifies the degree of the vertex p in GK(G). A finite group H is said to be OD-characterizable if G? H for every finite group G such that |G| = |H| and D(G) = D(H). The purpose of this article is threefold. First, it finds sharp upper and lower bounds on ?(G), the sum of degrees of all vertices in GK(G), for any finite group G (Theorem 2.1). Second, it provides the degree of vertices 2 and the characteristic p of the base field of any finite simple group of Lie type in their prime graphs (Propositions 3.1-3.7). Third, it proves the linear groups L₄(q), q = 19, 23, 27, 29, 31, 32, and 37, are OD-characterizable (Theorem 4.2).