Answering a question on equally covered groups

Year 2024, Early Access, 1 - 4

Andrea Lucchini

https://doi.org/10.24330/ieja.1582755

Abstract

Foguel, Moghaddamfar, Schmidt, and Velasquez-Berroteran asked in [Int. Electron. J. Algebra, 2024] whether there exists a positive integer $n$ with the property that, for every finite group $G$, the Cartesian power $G^n$ can be expressed as the union of a family of proper subgroups of the same order. We prove that the answer is negative.

Keywords

Equally covered group, Cartesian power of a group, PSL(2,p)

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