Abstract. This note provides a theorem on good groups in the sense of Hopkins-Kuhn-Ravenel [10] and some relevant examples. [15,16,17,18,19].
Preliminaries and main resultNot so surprising, that the examples of calculations with groups D, SD, QD, Q, M [6], [2,3] show, that even if the additive structure of K(s) * (BG) is calculated, the multiplicative structure is still a delicate task. Just outside of the class of p-groups with maximal cyclic subgroup-already for 2-groups of order 32-one is lead to a complicated ring structures [4].In a previous article [5] the author and S. Priddy obtained formulas relating Chern classes of transfer bundles to transfers of Chern classes. As formal consequences of such formulas one obtains new relations (as well as often much simpler derivations of old ones), and the hope generally is that these combined methods prove sufficient.The main result of this note is Theorem 1.1 on good groups in the sense of Hopkins-Kuhn-Ravenel as follows.Recall from [10] the following definition. a) For a finite group G, an element x ∈ K(s) * (BG) is good if it is a transferred Euler class of a complex subrepresentation of G, i.e., a class of the form T r * (e(ρ)), where ρ is a complex representation of a subgroup H < G, e(ρ) ∈ K(s) * (BH) is its Euler class (i.e., its top Chern class, this being defined since K(s) * is a complex oriented theory), and T r : BG → BH is the transfer map.(b) G is called to be good if K(s) * (BG) is spanned by good elements as a K(s) * module. The good groups in the weaker sense, i.e., K(s) odd = 0, also play a role in the literature [14], [15], [22].2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 55N20; 55R12; 55R40.