Finite groups in which there are only two possible cardinalities for an independent generating set

Abstract

A generating set $S$ for a group $G$ is independent if the subgroup generated by $S\setminus \{s\}$ is properly contained in $G$, for all $s \in S.$ In this paper, we study a problem proposed by Peter Glasby: we investigate finite groups, where there are only two possible cardinalities for the independet generating sets.