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HindawiPublishingCorporation InternationalJournalofMathematicsandMathematicalSciences Volume2009,ArticleID245617,12pages doi:10.1155/2009/245617 ResearchArticle Automorphisms ofRegularWreathProduct p-Groups JeffreyM.Riedl Department ofTheoreticalandAppliedMathematics, University ofAkron,Akron,OH44325-4002, USA Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoJe?reyM.Riedl,riedl@ Received12July2009;Revised5November 2009;Accepted 6November 2009 Recommended byAlexander Rosa We present a useful new characterization of the automorphisms of the regular wreath product group P ofa?nite cyclic p-group by a?nite cyclic p-group, for any prime p,and we discuss an application. Wealso present ashort new proof, based on representation theory,for determining the order of the automorphism group AutP,where P isthe regular wreath product of a?nite cyclicp-groupbyanarbitrary ?nitep-group. Copyright q2009Je?reyM.Riedl. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,distribution, andreproduction in anymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. 1.Introduction Let P denote the regular wreath product group CQ, where Q is an arbitrary nontrivial ?nitep-group,forsomeprimep,andwhereCisanany?nitecyclicp-group.ThusP isthe semidirectproductBQ,whereBisadirectproductof|Q|copiesofC,andwhereQacts viaautomorphismsonBbyregularlypermutingthesedirectfactors. In1,Houghtondeterminessomeinformationonthestructureoftheautomorphism group AutP. Using this work of Houghton see also 2, Chapter 5, it is possible to calculate the order of AutP. Our ?rst result in this paper is to present an alternative methodforcalculatingtheorderofAutP.Ourapproachtothiscalculationistoapplythe AutomorphismCountingFormulaestablishedin3,ageneralformulafortheorderofthe automorphismgroupAutGofamonolithic?nitegroupGintermsofinformationabout thecomplexcharactersofGandinformationabouthowGisembeddedasasubgroupofa particular?nitegenerall