Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA, cilt.474, ss.1-23, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
We study the existence of (unmixed) Beauville structures in finite p-groups, where p is a prime. First of all, we extend Catanese's characterisation of abelian Beauville groups to finite p-groups satisfying certain conditions which are much weaker than commutativity. This result applies to all known families of p-groups with a good behaviour with respect to powers: regular p-groups, powerful p-groups and more generally potent p-groups, and (generalised) p-central p-groups. In particular, our characterisation holds for all p-groups of order at most pP, which allows us to determine the exact number of Beauville groups of order p(5), for p >= 5, and of order p(6), for p >= 7. On the other hand, we determine which quotients of the Nottingham group over F-p are Beauville groups, for an odd prime p. As a consequence, we give the first explicit infinite family of Beauville 3-groups, and we show that there are Beauville 3-groups of order 3(n) for every n >= 5. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.