Splitting-simple group
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Definition
A nontrivial group is said to be splitting-simple or semidirectly indecomposable or inseparable if it satisfies the following equivalent conditions:
- It cannot be expressed as a semidirect product of nontrivial groups
- It has no proper nontrivial retract
- It has no proper nontrivial complemented normal subgroup
Relation with other properties
Stronger properties
| Property | Meaning | Proof of implication | Proof of strictness (reverse implication failure) | Intermediate notions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple group | nontrivial and no proper nontrivial subgroup is normal | |FULL LIST, MORE INFO | ||
| quasisimple group | perfect, and inner automorphism group is simple | |FULL LIST, MORE INFO |
Stronger properties conditional to nontriviality
The following properties are stronger, assuming the group is nontrivial.
| Property | Meaning | Proof of implication | Proof of strictness (reverse implication failure) | Intermediate notions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| group in which every endomorphism is trivial or an automorphism | any endomorphism is either the trivial map or an automorphism | |FULL LIST, MORE INFO |
Weaker properties
| Property | Meaning | Proof of implication | Proof of strictness (reverse implication failure) | Intermediate notions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| directly indecomposable group | nontrivial and cannot be expressed as an internal direct product of nontrivial groups | |FULL LIST, MORE INFO | ||
| freely indecomposable group | nontrivial and cannot be expressed as a free product of nontrivial groups | |FULL LIST, MORE INFO |
Formalisms
In terms of the simple group operator
This property is obtained by applying the simple group operator to the property: retract
View other properties obtained by applying the simple group operator
The group property of being semidirectly indecomposable is obtained by applying the simple group operator to the subgroup property of being a retract (the simple group operator takes a subgroup property and outputs the property of being a group where there is no proper nontrivial subgroup having that property).
It is also obtained by applying the simple group operator to the subgroup property of being a complemented normal subgroup.
