Subgroup congruences for groups of prime power order

Abstract

Given a $p$-group $G$ and a subgroup-closed class $\mathfrak{X}$, we associate with each $\mathfrak{X}$-subgroup $H$ certain quantities which count $\mathfrak{X}$-subgroups containing $H$ subject to further properties. We show in Theorem I that each one of the said quantities is always $\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}p)$ if and only if the same holds for the others. In Theorem II we supplement the above result by focusing on normal $\mathfrak{X}$-subgroups and in Theorem III we obtain a sharpened version of a celebrated theorem of Burnside relative to the class of abelian groups of bounded exponent. Various other corollaries are also presented.

arXiv commentTo appear at J. Algebra