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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2009, Article ID 245617, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2009/245617 Research Article Automorphisms of Regular Wreath Product p-Groups Jeffrey M. Riedl Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4002, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Jeffrey M. Riedl, riedl@ Received 12 July 2009; Revised 5 November 2009; Accepted 6 November 2009 Recommended by Alexander Rosa We present a useful new characterization of the automorphisms of the regular wreath product group P of a finite cyclic p-group by a finite cyclic p-group, for any prime p, and we discuss an application. We also present a short new proof, based on representation theory, for determining the order of the automorphism group Aut P , where P is the regular wreath product of a finite cyclic p-group by an arbitrary finite p-group. Copyright q 2009 Jeffrey M. Riedl. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Let P denote the regular wreath product group C Q, where Q is an arbitrary nontrivial finite p-group, for some prime p, and where C is an any finite cyclic p-group. Thus P is the semidirect product B Q, where B is a direct product of |Q| copies of C, and where Q acts via automorphisms on B by regularly permuting these direct factors. In 1, Houghton determines some information on the structure of the automorphism group AutP . Using this work of Houghton see also 2, Chapter 5, it is possible to calculate the order of AutP . Our first result in this paper is to present an alternati