Minimal partition-free groups

Abstract

Let G be a finite group. A collection P={H1, ..., Hr} of subgroups of G, where r > 1, is said a non-trivial partition of G if every non-identity element of G belongs to one and only one Hi, for some 1 <=i<=r. We call a group G that does not admit any non-trivial partition a partition-free group. In this paper, we study a partition-free group G whose all proper non-cyclic subgroups admit non-trivial partitions.