Research Article

On central automorphisms of finite p-groups of class 2


Abstract

Let G be a finite p-group and let Aut c (G) be the group of all central automorphisms of G. Let be the set of all central automorphisms of G fixing Z(G) elementwise. For a finite p-group of class 2, we have . In [6] we proved if and only if Z(G) is cyclic. In this paper we first prove that there is no finite p-group of class 2 for which , and then we characterize the finite p-groups G satisfying . As a consequence, we prove the main results of Curran and McCaughan [2].

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