Show that a group of order pn, where p is prime, is solvable.

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Show that a group of order pn, where p is prime, is solvable.

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Let G be a group of order p^n, where p is a prime number.

 

We will prove by induction on n that G is solvable. The base case is n = 1, where G is a group of order p. Any group of prime order is necessarily cyclic and therefore abelian, so it is solvable.

 

Now suppose that G is a group of order p^n for some n > 1. By the class equation, there exists an element g ∈ G whose conjugacy class has size divisible by p. In particular, the centralizer C_G(g) of g in G has order at least p, and so the quotient group G/C_G(g) has order p^{n-1}.

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