On strongly autinertial groups

Abstract

A subgroup X of G is said to be inert under automorphisms (autinert) if |X : $X^\\alpha$ ∩ X| is finite for allα ∈ Aut(G) and it is called strongly autinert if | < X, $X^\\alpha$ >: X| is finite for all α ∈ Aut(G). A group is calledstrongly autinertial if all subgroups are strongly autinert. In this article, the strongly autinertial groups are studied. Wecharacterize such groups for a finitely generated case. Namely, we prove that a finitely generated group G is stronglyautinertial if and only if one of the following hold:i) G is finite;ii) G = ⟨a⟩ ⋉ F where F is a finite subgroup of G and ⟨a⟩ is a torsion-free subgroup of G.Moreover, in the preliminary part, we give basic results on strongly autinert subgroups.