ON MINIMAL WEAKLY s-SUPPLEMENTED SUBGROUPS OF FINITE GROUPS

Abstract

Suppose G is a finite group and H is subgroup of G. H is said to be s-permutable in G if HGp = GpH for any Sylow p-subgroup Gp of G; H is called weakly s-supplemented subgroup of G if there is a subgroup T of G such that G = HT and H ∩ T ≤ HsG, where HsG is the subgroup of H generated by all those subgroups of H which are s-permutable in G. We investigate the influence of minimal weakly s-supplemented subgroups on the structure of finite groups and generalize some recent results. Furthermore, we give a positive answer in the minimal subgroup case for Skiba's Open Questions in [On weakly s-permutable subgroups of finite groups, J. Algebra315 (2007) 192–209].