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There are two important properties of groups that are stronger than commutativity: they are solvability and nilpotence. Solvable1 groups are obtained by forming successive extensions of abelian groups; nilpotent groups lie midway between abelian and solvable groups.
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British English speakers often say “soluble” instead of “solvable”.
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But see ex. 20, iii).
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M. Kargapolov, Iou. Merzliakov, Theorem 16.3.2
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Definition 2.19.
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See ex. 31 of Chapter 3.
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V is the initial of Verlagerung, the German term for transfer.
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Cf. Lemma 3.8.
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Alperin J.L.: Sylow Intersections and Fusion. J. Algebra 6, 222–241 (1967), and Glauberman G.: Global and Local Properties of Finite Groups. In: Powell M.B., Higman G. (eds.), Finite Simple groups. Academic Press, London and New York (1971).
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This fact characterizes p-nilpotent groups (Huppert, p. 432).
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The converse also holds: if a group has a p-complement for all p, then it is solvable.
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The original proof makes use of the Frobenius theorem (Theorem 6.21).
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This proposition is the content of a celebrated theorem of W. Feit and J.G. Thompson.
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The result also holds without the hypothesis of solvability (Glauberman).
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This fact characterizes finite solvable groups (J.G. Thompson).
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We recall that an equation is solvable by radicals if and only if its Galois group is a solvable group (Remark 2 of 3.68).
References
Alperin J.L.: Sylow Intersections and Fusion. J. Algebra 6, 222–241 (1967), and Glauberman G.: Global and Local Properties of Finite Groups. In: Powell M.B., Higman G. (eds.), Finite Simple groups. Academic Press, London and New York (1971).
This fact characterizes p-nilpotent groups (Huppert, p. 432).
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Machì, A. (2012). Nilpotent Groups and Solvable Groups. In: Groups. UNITEXT(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2421-2_5
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