Frobenius action on Carter subgroups

Let [Formula: see text] be a finite solvable group and [Formula: see text] be a subgroup of [Formula: see text]. Suppose that there exists an [Formula: see text]-invariant Carter subgroup [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] such that the semidirect product [Formula: see text] is a Frobenius group with kernel [Formula: see text] and complement [Formula: see text]. We prove that the terms of the Fitting series of [Formula: see text] are obtained as the intersection of [Formula: see text] with the corresponding terms of the Fitting series of [Formula: see text], and the Fitting height of [Formula: see text] may exceed the Fitting height of [Formula: see text] by at most one. As a corollary it is shown that for any set of primes [Formula: see text], the terms of the [Formula: see text]-series of [Formula: see text] are obtained as the intersection of [Formula: see text] with the corresponding terms of the [Formula: see text]-series of [Formula: see text], and the [Formula: see text]-length of [Formula: see text] may exceed the [Formula: see text]-length of [Formula: see text] by at most one. These theorems generalize the main results in [E. I. Khukhro, Fitting height of a finite group with a Frobenius group of automorphisms, J. Algebra 366 (2012) 1–11] obtained by Khukhro.

RIGHT ENGEL-TYPE SUBGROUPS AND LENGTH PARAMETERS OF FINITE GROUPS

Let $g$ be an element of a finite group $G$ and let $R_{n}(g)$ be the subgroup generated by all the right Engel values $[g,_{n}x]$ over $x\in G$. In the case when $G$ is soluble we prove that if, for some $n$, the Fitting height of $R_{n}(g)$ is equal to $k$, then $g$ belongs to the $(k+1)$th Fitting subgroup $F_{k+1}(G)$. For nonsoluble $G$, it is proved that if, for some $n$, the generalized Fitting height of $R_{n}(g)$ is equal to $k$, then $g$ belongs to the generalized Fitting subgroup $F_{f(k,m)}^{\ast }(G)$ with $f(k,m)$ depending only on $k$ and $m$, where $|g|$ is the product of $m$ primes counting multiplicities. It is also proved that if, for some $n$, the nonsoluble length of $R_{n}(g)$ is equal to $k$, then $g$ belongs to a normal subgroup whose nonsoluble length is bounded in terms of $k$ and $m$. Earlier, similar generalizations of Baer’s theorem (which states that an Engel element of a finite group belongs to the Fitting subgroup) were obtained by the first two authors in terms of left Engel-type subgroups.

On the Fitting height of factorised soluble groups

In this paper we are concerned with finite soluble groups

Bounding Fitting Heights of Two Classes of Character Degree Graphs

In this article, we prove that a finite solvable group with character degree graph containing at least four vertices has Fitting height at most 4 if each derived subgraph of four vertices has total degree not more than 8. We also prove that if the vertex set ρ(G) of the character degree graph Δ(G) of a solvable group G is a disjoint union ρ(G) = π1 ∪ π2, where |πi| ≥ 2 and pi, qi∈ πi for i = 1,2, and no vertex in π1 is adjacent in Δ(G) to any vertex in π2 except for p1p2 and q1q2, then the Fitting height of G is at most 4.