In mathematics, George Glauberman's ZJ theorem states that if a finite group G is p-constrained and p-stable and has a normal p-subgroup for some odd prime p, then O(G)Z(J(S)) is a normal subgroup of G, for any Sylow p-subgroup S.

Notation and definitions

• J(S) is the Thompson subgroup of a p-group S: the subgroup generated by the abelian subgroups of maximal order.

• Z(H) means the center of a group H.

• O is the maximal normal subgroup of G of order coprime to p, the p-core

• Op is the maximal normal p-subgroup of G, the p-core.

• O,p(G) is the maximal normal p-nilpotent subgroup of G, the p,p-core, part of the upper p-series.

• For an odd prime p, a group G with Op(G) ≠ 1 is said to be p-stable if whenever P is a of G such that PO(G) is normal in G, and [P,x,x] = 1, then the image of x in NG(P)/CG(P) is contained in a normal of NG(P)/CG(P).

• For an odd prime p, a group G with Op(G) ≠ 1 is said to be p-constrained if the centralizer CG(P) is contained in O,p(G) whenever P is a Sylow of O,p(G).

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