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some notational book-keeping
Arturo Magidin
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Centralizer of derived subgroup

Say $G$ a $p$-group, $M$ normal abelian subgroup of G such that $$\frac{G}{M} \cong C_{p^{n}}.$$

It exists $g \in G - M $ such that $G=M\langle g\rangle$.

I showed that the derived subgroup is $G' = [M,g]$.

  1. Is it true that $C_{G}(G')=MZ(G)$ ?

  2. When is this assertion true?

  3. In a metabelian $p$-group, $G'$ is abelian, so it's contained in its centralizer, right? When is it self centralizing?

Best regards

Marco, PhD student.