Beauville $p$-groups of wild type and groups of maximal class

Abstract

Let $G$ be a Beauville finite $p$-group. If $G$ exhibits a `good behaviour' with respect to taking powers, then every lift of a Beauville structure of $G/\Phi (G)$ is a Beauville structure of $G$. We say that $G$ is a Beauville $p$-group of wild type if this lifting property fails to hold. Our goal in this paper is twofold: firstly, we fully determine the Beauville groups within two large families of $p$-groups of maximal class, namely metabelian groups and groups with a maximal subgroup of class at most $2$; secondly, as a consequence of the previous result, we obtain infinitely many Beauville $p$-groups of wild type.

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