Congruences Associated with Families of Nilpotent Subgroups and a Theorem of Hirsch

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Date
2019-05-27MFO Scientific Program
Research in Pairs 2019Series
Oberwolfach Preprints;2019,16Author
Aivazidis, Stefanos
Müller, Thomas
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Abstract
Our main result associates a family of congruences with each suitable system of nilpotent subgroups of a finite group. Using this result, we complete and correct the proof of a theorem of Hirsch concerning the class number of a finite group of odd order.