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1 Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) Factoring finite abelian groups A.D. Sands Department of Mathematics, Dundee University, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK Received 1 April 2003 Communicated by Paul Flavell Abstract It is shown that if in the factorization of a finite cyclic group each factor has either prime power order or order equal to the product of two primes then one factor must be periodic. This is shown to be the best possible result of this type Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Factorization; Abelian group 1. Introduction In the study of the factorization of finite abelian groups it is usual to ask under what conditions one of the factors must be periodic. With the exception of elementary 2-groups this leads to formulae [8] giving all factorizations where these conditions hold. The conditions may involve the structure of the group and the number of factors. Alternately they may involve numerical conditions on the orders of the factors. The best known result of this second type is the famous Theorem of Rédei [5] which asserts that if each factor has prime order then one factor must be a subgroup. It should be noted that a periodic factor of prime order is a subgroup. For cyclic groups, the more general result holds [8] that if each factor has prime power order then one factor must be periodic. From examples given by de Bruijn [2], it follows that for cyclic groups this last result does not extend to factors of order p 2 q or pqr,wherep, q, r are distinct primes, even if the remaining factors have prime order. No example is known to exclude factors of order pq. We shall see in Theorem 1 that the conclusion does hold for factors of this type and that address: /$ see front matter 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi: /j.jalgebra
2 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) we may also admit factors of prime power order. We shall then show that this result along with a previous result from [8] gives a complete solution in the case of cyclic groups. This result can also be used to greatly shorten the proofs of previous results in [1,6]. In the non-cyclic case, we show in Theorem 2 that if the p-primary component of a group G is cyclic and if all factors except perhaps one have order a power of the prime p then some factor must be periodic. This generalizes results in [6,8,9] and also provides shorter proofs for the results in [6,9]. Finally we list some open problems of this type for the non-cyclic case. 2. Preliminaries Throughout the paper the word group will be used to mean finite abelian group. The additive notation is used. The sum of subsets A 1,A 2,...,A r of a group G is the subset of all elements of the form r i=1 a i,wherea i A i for each i. The sum is said to be direct if each such element has a unique expression in this form. If the direct sum of subsets equals G, we call this a factorization of the group G. The notation A + g is used to denote the set of all elements {a + g: a A}. In a factorization, each subset A i may be replaced by A i + g i for any elements g i G. Hence we may and do assume that 0 A i for each factor A i. The order of the subset A of G is denoted by A. In order to avoid trivial cases, we assume that A i > 1 for each factor A i of G. A subset A of a group G is said to be periodic if there exists a non-zero element g of G such that A + g = A. ThesetH of these periods, together with 0, forms a subgroup of G. Clearly A is a union of cosets of H. Equivalently, there exists a subset D such that A = H + D, whered is non-periodic. If G = A 1 + A 2 + +A r is a factorization in which A 1 = H + D 1 then we obtain a factorization of the quotient group G/H. If, again, one factor is periodic, this process may be continued. In [8] formulae are given to obtain all such factorizations whenever this process continues at each stage. This subject arose because of the solution by Hajós [4] of one of the classical problems of Minkowski. Whether or not a factor must be periodic continues to be of interest because of the existence of these formulae. A group has been called good if in every factorization involving two factors one factor must be periodic. The group is called k-good if this holds true for factorizations involving k factors. A factorization is said to be bad if none of the factors is periodic. The cyclic group of order n is denoted by Z(n). The subgroup generated by a subset A of a group G is denoted by A.IfA and B are non-periodic subsets and if the sum A +B is direct then it has been shown [7] that A + B is non-periodic. If H is a proper non-zero subgroup of a group G then there exists a non-periodic complete set of coset representatives C for G modulo H except in the case where H has index 2 in an elementary 2-group G [7]. If we have a factorization of a proper non-zero subgroup H of a group G into r nonperiodic factors and if C is a non-periodic complete set of coset representatives then G has bad factorizations with r + 1 factors and also with r factors. H = A 1 + +A r leads to G = A 1 + +(A r + C) and the result follows from above by regarding A r + C as either two factors or one single factor.
3 542 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) When dealing with these problems, Rédei [5] introduced the use of group characters. If χ is a character of a group G and A is a subset of G then χ(a)is defined to be the complex number a A χ(a).ifg = A 1 + +A r is a factorization of G then it is easily seen that χ(g)= χ(a 1 ) χ(a r ).Ifχ is not the unity character then χ(g)= 0 and so there exists i such that χ(a i ) = 0. We have equivalent methods for cyclic groups using cyclotomic polynomials. Let g be a generator of Z(n). IfA is a subset of order r then there exist integers d i,1 i r, 0 d i <n, such that A ={d i g:1 i r}. We associate with A the polynomial A(x) = ri=1 x d i, which has degree less than n. Sincec d(mod n) if and only if x c x d (mod (x n 1)), it follows that from a factorization G = A 1 + +A r we obtain that A 1 (x) A r (x) G(x) = 1 + x + +x n 1 (mod (x n 1)). IfF d (x) denotes the dth cyclotomic polynomial then if d divides n and d>1 it divides both G(x) and x n 1. Since F d (x) is irreducible over the field Q of rationals there exists i such that it divides A i (x). There is, in fact, an old result of Kronecker, who shows that if d and m are relatively prime then F d (x) is irreducible over the field of mth roots of unity. The special case where d = p e is a prime power is most useful. If we reduce the exponents in A i (x) modulo p e we obtain a polynomial B i (x) with degree less than p e andsuchthata i (x) B i (x) (mod (x pe 1)). Hence F p e(x) = 1 + x pe x (p 1)pe 1 divides B i (x). Since the quotient is a polynomial of degree less than p e 1 this leads to considerable information about B i (x).in particular, the coefficients of x s and x s+pe 1 are equal for 0 s<(p 1)p e 1. As has been mentioned, for cyclic groups the two methods are essentially equivalent. If χ is a character of Z(n) with χ(g) = ρ, whereρ is a dth primitive root of unity, then χ(a i ) = A i (ρ). NowA i (ρ) = 0 if and only if F d (x) divides A i (x). So the methods are equivalent but deductions can often be obtained more easily by using cyclotomic polynomials. In this paper we make use of Proposition 3 from [10]. We make one useful deduction here. For a subset A of a group G,wedefinenA to be the family of elements {na: a A} for each integer n. Let a group G be a direct sum of subgroups H, K of relatively prime orders. For g G, we use the notation g = g H + g K,whereg H H, g K K. Wedefine the H -component of A by A H ={a H : a A}. Lemma. Let a group G be a direct sum of subgroups H,K of relatively prime orders. Let G = A + B be a factorization of G such that A divides H.ThenG = A H + B is also a factorization. Proof. Let H =m, K =n. Sincem and n are relatively prime, there exists k such that kn 1 (mod m). Since A divides m, it follows that A and kn are relatively prime. By [10, Proposition 3] it follows that kna + B = G is a factorization. Since kna = a H, it follows that A H + B = G is a factorization. We should note that this implies that the elements {a H : a A} are distinct.
4 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) Cyclic groups Before proceeding to the general case of the result given in the introduction for cyclic groups, we observe that the result is essentially known for cyclic groups with only two distinct prime factors. If Z(p e q f ) = A 1 + +A r is a factorization then F p e qf (x) divides A i (x) for some i. If A i is a prime power then it is already known [8] that A i is periodic. If A i =pq then a standard application of [3, Theorem 2] yields A i (1) = pq = pp(1) + qq(1) where P(x),Q(x) are polynomials with non-negative integer coefficients. Thus either P(1) = q,q(1) = 0orP(1) = 0,Q(1) = p. Q(1) = 0 implies Q(x) = 0andsothat p e 1 q f g is a period of A i,whereg is a generator of G. Similarly P(1) = 0 implies that p e q f 1 g is a period of A i. So, in this case, if the given conditions are satisfied one factor must be periodic. Theorem 1. Let G be a cyclic group and let there be a factorization of G in which each factor has either prime power order or order equal to the product of two primes. Then one of the factors is periodic. Proof. Let G have order n and generator g. Letχ be a character of G such that χ(g) is an nth primitive root of unity. It follows from [8] that if χ(a i ) = 0where A i is a prime power then A i is periodic. So we may assume that G = A 1 + +A u + +A k,where χ(a i ) = 0 if and only if i u and that, for these values of i, A i =p i q i where p i, q i are distinct primes. Let B i be the (G pi + G qi )-component of A i. By the lemma we may replace A i by B i to obtain the factorization G = B 1 + +B u + A u+1 + +A k.from above for some value of i we must have χ(b i ) = 0. We may assume that χ(b 1 ) = 0 and, for convenience, that B 1 =pq. Let n = p e q f m,wherem is not divisible by p or by q.leta, b, c of orders p e, q f, m, respectively, be a generating set for G. As already noted, since B 1 is a subset of Z(p e q f ), χ(b 1 ) = 0 implies that B 1 is periodic. Since B 1 =pq, it has a period of order p or of order q. Without loss of generality, we may assume that p e 1 a is a period of B 1.Let H = p e 1 a. Then there is a subset D of order q such that B 1 = H + D. By the lemma, the elements of B 1 andsoalsoofd are distinct. Let D = q j=1 (r j a + s j b). From the form of H we may assume that 0 r j <p e 1. Then from B 1 = H + D it follows that p 1 A 1 = i=0 j=1 q (( ip e 1 ) + r j a + sj b + e(i,j)c ) where 0 s j <q f,0 e(i,j) < m.
5 544 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) Since χ(g) has order n, it follows that χ(a)= α, χ(b)= β, χ(c)= γ have orders p e, q f, m, respectively. Then χ(a 1 ) = 0 implies that p 1 i=0 j=1 q α ip(e 1) +r j β s j γ e(i,j) = 0. It follows that the polynomial obtained by replacing α by x is divisible by F p e(x). Thus the coefficients of x r, x r+pe 1,...,x r+(p 1)pe 1 in this polynomial are equal. Hence β s j γ e(0,j) = = β s j γ e(p 1,j). r j =r r j =r As before, it follows that F q f (x) divides, for each i and i, the polynomial x s j γ e(i,j) x s j γ e(i,j). r j =r r j =r So the coefficients in this polynomial of x s, x s+qf 1,...,x s+(q 1)qf 1 are all equal. Now the pairs (r j,s j ) are distinct. Thus, for a given pair (r, s + tq f 1 ), there is either a unique j with (r j,s j ) equal to this pair or else no such j exists at all. So the coefficient in the above polynomial of x s+tqf 1 is either of the form γ e(i,j) γ e(i,j) or else is 0 as no such j exists. Suppose for a given r that both situations arise. Then all coefficients are 0 for this value of r. Thus γ e(i,j) = γ e(i,j) for the v values of t for which such coefficients arise, where 1 v<q. Since the occurrence of (r j,s j ) does not involve i, this occurs for all pairs i and i. So for this value of r, vp terms are involved. For any other value, say r,theremust be fewer than pq terms involved and so the same result arises. Hence e(i,j) = e(i,j) for all i, i and j. Therefore A 1 is periodic with period p e 1 a. So we may assume that r, s exist such that all q values of (r, s + tq e 1 ),0 t<q,do occur. This gives all pq terms in A 1 and, since 0 A 1, it follows that B 1 is the subgroup of order pq.sointhiscasewehave A 1 = p 1 q 1 ( ip e 1 a + jq f 1 b + e(i,j)c ). i=0 j=0 Then, as above, we obtain that for all i, i, j, j, γ e(i,j) γ e(i,j) = γ e(i,j ) γ e(i,j ). These are complex numbers of modulus 1 and from an Argand diagram it is easy to see that they must be equal in pairs. So three cases can arise as follows:
6 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) (C1) e(i,j) = e(i,j ) and e(i,j)= e(i,j ); (C2) e(i,j) = e(i,j) and e(i,j ) = e(i,j ); (C3) e(i,j) = e(i,j ) + m/2 and e(i,j)= e(i,j ) + m/2. The third case, in which γ e(i,j) = γ e(i,j ), can only arise if m is even. We recall that 0 e(i,j) < m and all sums are being taken modulo m. Firstly let us assume that only cases C1 and C2 occur. If, for a given i, e(i,j) = e(i,j ) for all j, j then it follows that for all i, j, j we have e(i,j)= e(i,j ). Hence q f 1 b is a period of A 1. So we may suppose that for each i there exists s,s such that e(i,s) e(i,s ). Then C2 holds for this pair s, s and for all i.soe(i,s) = e(i,s).byc2,e(i,j ) = e(i,j ) for all i, j. Hence e(i,j ) = e(r,j )(= e(i,j )) for all i, r, j. It follows that A 1 is periodic with period p e 1 a. Now we may suppose that r, r and s, s exist such that neither C1 nor C2 is satisfied. Then m must be even and e(r,s) = e(r,s ) + m/2,e(r,s)= e(r,s ) + m/2. Let γ e(r,s) = ρ,γ e(r,s) = σ.thenasγ m/2 = 1wehavethatγ e(r,s ) = ρ, γ e(r,s ) = σ. Since neither C1 nor C2 is satisfied it follows that ρ σ, ρ σ. Since m is even, it follows that pq is odd and so by [10, Proposition 3] that we may replace A 1 by 2A 1.Ifχ(2A 1 ) = 0 then, as above using 2a, 2b as generators, we obtain that γ 2e(i,j) γ 2e(i,j) = γ 2e(i,j ) γ 2e(i,j ). For r, r and s, s, this implies that ρ 2 σ 2 = σ 2 ρ 2.Thisgivesρ = σ or ρ = σ,which is false. We may now proceed by induction on u.ifu = 1, we would have the contradiction of a factorization G = 2A 1 + A 2 + +A k in which χ(a) is not zero for any factor A. Thus, in this case, C1 or C2 must hold always and from the above we have that A 1 is periodic. For u>1, this new factorization has only u 1 factors, A say, with χ(a) = 0. The required result follows by induction on u. This completes the proof. This result leads to shorter proofs of certain earlier results, since the proof here does not depend on these results. In [6] lengthy proofs are given that the groups Z(p 2 qr) and Z(pqrs), wherep, q, r, s are distinct primes, are good. The lengthy cases are for factors of orders pq,pr in the first group and for factors of order pq, rs in the second. These now follow immediately from Theorem 1. Corrádi and Szabó [1] gave a lengthy proof where one factor has order pq and the other factors have prime order. They did this to answer a question raised in [8]. Again this result follows immediately from Theorem 1. We should note that the C3 case can arise in the above proof and that χ(a 1 ) = χ(b 1 ) = 0 need not imply that A 1 is periodic. Consider the following example which uses the notations as above. Let p, q be distinct odd primes and let m be an even integer greater than 2 and not divisible by p or q.letz(pqm) be generated by elements a,b,c of orders p, q, m, respectively. Let I ={i: 0 i p 1} be a disjoint union of non-empty subsets
7 546 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) I 1, I 2 with 0 I 1. Similarly, let J ={j: 0 j q 1} be a disjoint union of non-empty subsets J 1, J 2 with 0 J 1.Definee(i,j) as follows: 0 if (i, j) I 1 J 1, m/2 if (i, j) I e(i,j) = 2 J 2, 1 if (i, j) I 2 J 1, 1 + m/2 if (i, j) I 1 J 2. Let A 1 = p 1 q 1 i=0 j=0 (ia + jb+ e(i,j)c). ThenB 1 is the subgroup a,b = Z(pq) and so χ(b 1 ) = 0. Now χ(a 1 ) = α i β j α ( ) i β j + γ α i β j α i β j i I 1 j J 1 i I 2 j J 2 i I 2 j J 1 i I 1 j J 2 = α i β j α ( i β j + γ α i β j α i β ). j i I j J 1 i I 2 j J i I j J 1 i I 1 j J Hence χ(a 1 ) = 0, as i I αi = 0 = j J βj. A 1 is not periodic since A 1 =pq and neither a nor b is a period. A 1 does occur in such factorizations of G. IfH = c then since B 1 = a,b it follows that G = A 1 + H and H may be factored into factors of suitable orders. Of course, one of these factors of H will be periodic. In [8, Theorem 2] it is shown that if G is cyclic and every factor in a factorization except perhaps one has order a power of the same prime p then one factor must be periodic. In the introduction we claimed that we now have the best possible result of this type. This follows from examples given by de Bruijn [2] and then by the method of extending examples of bad factorizations already mentioned. Let G contain a proper subgroup H which is the direct sum of two subgroups H 1,H 2 of composite order. Then H 1, H 2 contain non-zero subgroups K 1, K 2 and non-periodic sets of coset representatives A 1, A 2, respectively, with H 1 = K 1 + A 1, H 2 = K 2 + A 2. De Bruijn shows how to construct a third non-periodic subset A 3 such that G = A 1 + A 2 + A 3.We should note that A 1 + A 2 is also non-periodic, since A 1 H 1 and H 1 + A 2 is direct. In order that H should be cyclic, we need the condition that H 1, H 2 should be relatively prime. Thus this holds also for A 1, A 2. We may choose A 1, A 2 to be of distinct prime orders. Since A 3 = G/H K 1 K 2, we may choose G so that A 3 is of order p 2 q or pqr where these are distinct primes. Now, as mentioned previously, we can extend bad factorizations of subgroups of prime index to bad factorizations of the group and either include a new factor of prime order or increase the order of a given factor by a prime multiple. Thus, for a given set of orders of factors, provided that one factor has order divisible by p 2 q or pqr, where these are distinct primes, and the orders of the remaining factors taken together involve at least two distinct primes, bad factorizations with this set of orders of factors exist. As claimed, this leaves only the sets of orders contained in [8, Theorem 2] and in Theorem 1.
8 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) Non-cyclic groups We have mentioned above the result from [8] that if all factors but one in the factorization of a cyclic group have orders equal to powers of the same prime then one factor is periodic. There is also a result [9] that states that if the p-component of a group is cyclic then in any factorization involving only two factors if one factor has order a power of the prime p then again one of the two factors must be periodic. We show here that these two results may be generalized by allowing all factors but one to be of order a power of the same prime p, but with the retention of the condition that the p-component is cyclic. Theorem 2. Let p be a prime and let G be a group such that the p-component G p is cyclic. If G = A 1 + +A r + B is a factorization of G such that each factor A i has order equal to a power of p then one of the factors is periodic. Proof. For each i let B i be the G p -component of A i. By the lemma, A i may be replaced by B i and the elements of B i are distinct. Let H be the subgroup of G which is the complement of G p. Since the subsets B i are contained in G p it follows that, for each h H, G p + h = B B r + (B (G p + h)). This leads to the factorization G p = B 1 + +B r + ((B (G p + h)) h). SinceG p is a cyclic group of prime power order it follows that one of the factors must be periodic. Suppose first that no factor B i is periodic. Let G p have order p e and generator a.then p e 1 a is a period of (B (G p + h)) h and so of B (G p + h) for each h H. Since, as h varies over H, B is the union of these sets it follows that p e 1 a is a period of B. We may now suppose that one of the other subsets, say B 1, is periodic. Then p e 1 a is a period. We should note that this implies that the subsets B 2,...,B r are not periodic since the sum with B 1 being direct implies that p e 1 a cannot also be a period of one of these sets. From the results given in [8], it follows that if χ is a character such that χ(a) has order p e then χ(b i ) 0for2 i r. Now let us consider the factorization G = A 1 + B 2 + +B r + B. For any character χ such that χ(a) has order p e, we have that either χ(a 1 ) = 0orthatχ(B) = 0. Let χ j, j J, be the set of all such characters such that χ j (A 1 ) = 0. Let the kernel of χ j be K j, i.e. K j ={g G: χ j (g) = 1}. Let the intersection of all these subgroups K j be K. Let F = p e 1 a. We note that the statement that χ(a) has order p e is equivalent to χ(p e 1 a) 1 and so to the statement that χ(f)= 0. Let us suppose that K = 0. Let χ j (A 1 ) = 0. If h H and ra + h A 1 then ra B 1 and so only one such r can exist. χ j (A 1 ) = 0 implies that α r χ j (h) = 0, where the summation is taken over all ra + h A 1.ThenF p e(x) divides x r χ j (h). Sincep e 1 a is a period of B 1, it follows that if sa + h 1 is in A 1 with h 1 H then there exists h 2 H such that (s + p e 1 )a + h 2 A 1. From above it follows that χ j (h 1 ) = χ j (h 2 ) andsothat h 1 h 2 K j. This is true for all such j. Hence h 1 h 2 is in K. It follows that h 1 = h 2 andsothatp e 1 a is a period of A 1. Finally we have the case in which K 0. Let χ be a character such that χ(f) = χ(k) = 0. χ(k) = 0 implies that χ(a 1 ) 0. Thus χ(b) = 0. By [11, Theorem 2] it follows that there exist subsets U, V of G such that B is the disjoint union of the direct sums F + U and K + V.NowthesumB 1 + B is direct and p e 1 a is a period of B 1.It
9 548 A.D. Sands / Journal of Algebra 275 (2004) follows that U is the empty set and so that B = K + V. Thus every non-zero element of K is a period of B. This completes the proof. This provides a better proof for the result in [9] which considers the case with just one factor of order a power of p. The result in [8] is a routine extension of the result for one such factor in [6, Theorem 2], but we now have an alternative proof for this result. In the cyclic case, we were able to determine which sets of orders of factors ensured that one factor is periodic. This problem is far from solved in the non-cyclic case. We close the paper by listing some unsolved problems. De Bruijn [2] has given an example in which there is a bad factorization with factors of order m and mk, wherem 4, k>1, and G contains a subgroup of type Z(m)+ Z(m). By choosing m to be a prime greater than 3 and k to be any prime and extending this factorization as before, we are left only with Rédei s Theorem, i.e. the case where every factor has prime order. In the case of 2-groups examples of bad factorizations with factors of order 8 and 4 and with factors of order 8, 2 and 2 are known from [2]. No bad factorization is known with factors of orders 2 and 4 only. So we have the following question. Problem 1. If a group G is factorized as a sum of factors each of which has prime order or order 4 must one of the factors be periodic? In the case of 3-groups, there are examples of bad factorizations in [2] with factors of orders 3k and 3m for any k, m greater than 1 provided that G has a subgroup isomorphic to Z(3) + Z(3). This leaves unsolved the case where G has a single factor of order 9. For other groups, it leaves unsolved also the case where G has a single factor of order 6. So we have the following question. Problem 2. If a group G is factorized as a sum of factors all of which have prime order apart from a single factor of order 6 or 9 must one of the factors be periodic? There is a reference above to an example where the factors have orders m and mk.ifwe restrict attention to cases where the orders of factors are relatively prime, we need to return to the example used for cyclic groups. Now the restriction that subgroups whose sums are direct must have relatively prime orders can be dropped. This allows the possibility of the factor A 1 having order p 3 as well as the previous possible orders p 2 q and pqr. One of the factors in the m and mk case must have non-prime order. So we have the following question. Problem 3. If a group G is factorized as a sum of factors each of which has prime order or order the product of two, not necessarily distinct, primes and if the order of each factor which is not prime is relatively prime to the product of the orders of the remaining factors must then one factor be periodic? It may be possible to combine the sets of orders in Problems 1 and 2. It may also be possible to weaken some of the conditions in Problem 3 for cases involving the primes two
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