{"paper":{"title":"The fundamental group of the $p$-subgroup complex","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.AT"],"primary_cat":"math.GR","authors_text":"Elias Gabriel Minian, Kevin Ivan Piterman","submitted_at":"2019-03-08T16:51:15Z","abstract_excerpt":"We study the fundamental group of the $p$-subgroup complex of a finite group $G$. We show first that $\\pi_1(A_3(A_{10}))$ is not a free group (here $A_{10}$ is the alternating group on $10$ letters). This is the first concrete example in the literature of a $p$-subgroup complex with non-free fundamental group. We prove that, modulo a well-known conjecture of M. Aschbacher, $\\pi_1(A_p(G)) = \\pi_1(A_p(S_G)) * F$, where $F$ is a free group and $\\pi_1(A_p(S_G))$ is free if $S_G$ is not almost simple. Here $S_G = \\Omega_1(G)/O_{p'}(\\Omega_1(G))$. This result essentially reduces the study of the fun"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1903.03549","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}