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Exercise Batch 7 Nilpotent and Solvable Groups

This document discusses properties of nilpotent and solvable groups. It contains 14 problems exploring when groups are nilpotent or solvable, including: 1) For which group orders n ≤ 200 can a non-simple, non-solvable group exist. 2) Showing that a nonabelian group of order pq is solvable but not nilpotent. 3) Showing that GLn(F) and SLn(F) are non-solvable when F has cardinality at least 4.

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Exercise Batch 7 Nilpotent and Solvable Groups

This document discusses properties of nilpotent and solvable groups. It contains 14 problems exploring when groups are nilpotent or solvable, including: 1) For which group orders n ≤ 200 can a non-simple, non-solvable group exist. 2) Showing that a nonabelian group of order pq is solvable but not nilpotent. 3) Showing that GLn(F) and SLn(F) are non-solvable when F has cardinality at least 4.

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Exercise Batch 7

Nilpotent and Solvable Groups

1. For which group orders n, n ≤ 200, can there exist a non-simple, non-solvable
group of order n?
2. Let G be a nonabelian group of order pq, where p and q are distinct primes.
Show that G is solvable, but not nilpotent.
3. Let F be a field of cardinality at least 4. Show that the groups GLn (F) and
SLn (F) are non-solvable groups.
4. Show that the symmetric groups, Sn , n ≥ 5 are non-solvable.
5. Let G be a finite solvable group, and let K E G be a minimal normal subgroup.
Prove that K is an elementary abelian p- group for some prime p.
6. Let G be a finite solvable group, all of whose Sylow subgroups are abelian.
Prove that Z(G) ∩ G0 = {e}.
7. Let B ≤ GLn (F) be the subgroup consisting of upper triangular matrices.
Prove that B is a solvable group.
8. Let G be a group. Show that G is nilpotent if and only if G/Z is nilpotent,
where Z = Z(G) is the center of G.
9. Let G = D2n be the dihedral group of order 2n. Show that G is nilpotent if
and only if n is a power of 2.
10. Let G be a finite nonabelian nilpotent group of order n. If p is prime and p|n,
show that p3 |n.
11. Let U ≤ GLn (F) be the subgroup consisting of unipotent upper diagonal ma-
trices (i.e., having all 1’s down the diagonal). Prove that U is a nilpotent
group.
12. Let G be a finite group. Show that G is nilpotent if and only if xy = yx for all
x, y ∈ G having relatively prime orders.
13. Let G be a nilpotent group and let N E G be a non-trivial normal subgroup
of G. Prove that N ∩ Z(G) 6= {e}. (Hint: In the lower central series G =
L0 (G) ≥ L1 (G) ≥ . . ., let j be the largest index with N ∩ Lj (G) 6= {e}.
Therefore [G, N ∩ Lj (G)] ≤ Lj+1 (G) ∩ N = {e}. What does this say?)
14. Let G be a finite group and let N, M be normal nilpotent subgroups of G.
Prove that M N is also a normal nilpotent subgroup of G. (Hint: by induction,
assume that G = M N . Let Z = Z(M ) 6= {e}. Then Z char M E G ⇒ Z E G.
Look at K = [Z, N ] E G. If K = {e}, then Z ≤ Z(G), so G/Z(G) is nilpotent
by induction so G is nilpotent. If K 6= {e}, then L = K ∩ Z(N ) 6= {e} by the
above exercise. But L ≤ Z(M ) and so {e} = 6 L ≤ Z(G).)

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