On groups with a class-preserving outer automorphism

2013/10/29 by Brooksbank, Peter A., Mizuhara, Matthew S.
#FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.7663

Abstract

In 1911, Burnside asked whether or not there exist groups that have an outer automorphism which preserves conjugacy classes. Two years later he answered his own question by constructing a family of such groups. Using the small group library in MAGMA we determine all of the groups of order n < 512 that possess such an automorphism. Our investigations led to the discovery of four new infinite families of such groups, all of which are 2-groups of coclass 4.

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