Unitriangular matrix group:UT(3,3)

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Definition

This group is defined in the following equivalent ways:

  1. It is the unique (up to isomorphism) non-abelian group of order and exponent .
  2. It is the upper-triangular unipotent matrix group: the group of matrices over the field of three elements.
  3. It is the inner automorphism group of wreath product of groups of order p for .
  4. It is the Burnside group : the quotient of the free group of rank two by the subgroup generated by all cubes in the group.

Families

  • Prime-cube order group:U(3,p): For an odd prime , this is the unique non-abelian group of order and exponent . It is the group of unipotent upper-triangular matrices over the field of three elements.
  • Burnside groups: This group is . In general, the Burnside groups are all finite.

Arithmetic functions

Function Value Explanation
order 27
exponent 3
Frattini length 2
Fitting length 1

Group properties

Property Satisfied Explanation
abelian group No
group of prime power order Yes
nilpotent group Yes prime power order implies nilpotent
solvable group Yes
extraspecial group Yes
Frattini-in-center group Yes

Other associated constructs

Associated construct Isomorphism class Comment
Lazard Lie ring upper-triangular nilpotent Lie ring:u(3,3)

GAP implementation

Group ID

This finite group has order 27 and has ID 3 among the groups of order 27 in GAP's SmallGroup library. For context, there are groups of order 27. It can thus be defined using GAP's SmallGroup function as:

SmallGroup(27,3)

For instance, we can use the following assignment in GAP to create the group and name it :

gap> G := SmallGroup(27,3);

Conversely, to check whether a given group is in fact the group we want, we can use GAP's IdGroup function:

IdGroup(G) = [27,3]

or just do:

IdGroup(G)

to have GAP output the group ID, that we can then compare to what we want.