Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 ; Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1113 |
Abstract: | For a group let be the number of subgroups of index and let be the number of normal subgroups of index . We show that for . If and does not divide or if and or , we show that for all sufficiently large . On the other hand if and divides , then is not even bounded as a function of . |