ON A THEOREM OF HUPPERT

Abstract

A well-known theorem of Huppert states that a finite group is soluble if its every proper subgroup is supersoluble. In this paper, we proved the following result: let G be a finite group. (1) If G has exactly n non-supersoluble proper subgroups, where 0 ≤ n ≤ 7 and n ≠ 5, then G is soluble. (2) G is a non-soluble group with exactly five non-supersoluble proper subgroups if and only if all non-supersoluble proper subgroups are conjugate maximal subgroups and G/Φ(G) ≅ A5, where Φ(G) is the Frattini subgroup of G. Furthermore, we also considered the influence of the number of non-abelian proper subgroups on the solubility of finite groups.