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A note on central automorphisms of groups
Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. Rend. Lincei (9) Mat. Appl., 3, (1992), pp. 103–106.
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Part of the main (and only) theorem in this paper can be extended to group endomorphisms. I did it in my PhD thesis.

If G is a group and θ is an endomorphism of G then θ is said to be centralizing if and only if every element g of G commutes with its image gθ. So, this condition is exactly the requirement (i) in parts (a) and (b) of the theorem in [3]. Also, θ is central if [G,θ] is contained in Z(G), while it is normal if θ commutes with every inner automorphism of G (which amounts to saying that [G,θ] centralises Gθ). These two properties are equivalent if θ is an automorphism (or, at least, if it is surjective) but there exist non-central normal endomorphisms in any nonabelian group—for instance the zero endomorphism. The result in the thesis is the following:

Let θ be a centralizing endomorphism of a group G and assume that, for every element g of G, the subgroup ⟨[g,θ]⟩ is normal in G. Then:

  1. θ is normal;
  2. if g is an element of G such that either [g,θ] has infinite order or g has odd order, then [g,θ] lies in Z(G);
  3. if θ is not central then [G,θ] has a G-invariant subgroup isomorphic to the quaternion group of order 8.

Clearly, the fact that condition (c) of the theorem in [3] implies (a) is a special case of this result.

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