Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 19 (2016), Article 16.8.7

Converse Lagrange Theorem Orders and Supersolvable Orders


Des MacHale
School of Mathematical Sciences
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland

Joseph Manning
Department of Computer Science
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland

Abstract:

For finite groups, we investigate both converse Lagrange theorem (CLT) orders and supersolvable (SS) orders, and see that the latter form a proper subset of the former. We focus on the difference between these two sets of orders, reformulate the work of earlier authors algorithmically, and construct a computer program to enumerate such NSS-CLT orders. We establish several results relating to NSS and CLT orders and, working from our computer-generated data, propose a pair of conjectures and obtain a complete characterization of the most common form of NSS-CLT order.


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(Concerned with sequence A066085.)


Received October 24 2015; revised version received November 4 2016. Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, November 13 2016. Slight revision of Tables 2 and 3, June 20 2017.


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