ON THE CYCLE INDICES OF FROBENIOUS GROUPS

Abstract

There are several very useful formulas, which give the cycle indices of the binary operation of the sum, product, composition and power group of M and H in terms of cycle indices of M and H. One very useful binary operation on groups, which has not been exploited, is the semidirect product. Suppose G = M ⋊H, a semi direct product; the question is: how can we express the cycle index of G in terms of the cycle indices of M and H? This work partially answers this question by considering the cycle indices of some particularly semidirect product groups; namely – Frobenious groups.