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Exercise 4.5.15 (A group of order $351$ has a normal Sylow $p$-subgroup)

Prove that a group of order 351 has a normal Sylow p -subgroup for some prime p dividing its order.

Answers

Proof. Suppose that | G | = 351 = 3 3 13 .

By Sylow’s Theorem,

n 13 24 , and n 13 1 ( 𝑚𝑜𝑑 13 ) .

Therefore

n 13 = 1 or  n 13 = 27 .

Similarly n 3 13 , thus

n 3 = 1 or n 3 = 13 .

Assume that n 13 1 . Then n 13 = 27 . Therefore there are 27 subgroups of order 13 , and distinct 13 -subgroups intersect in the identity. Thus there are 27 12 = 324 elements of order 13 in G . It remains a set S of 27 elements, whose orders are not 13 . Then every Sylow 3 -subgroup, of order 27 , is included in this set S , so is equal to S , hence there is only one Sylow 3 -subgroup, and so n 3 = 1 .

This shows that n 13 = 1 or n 3 = 1 : a group of order 56 has a normal Sylow p -subgroup for p = 3 or p = 13 . □

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