Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2019
Let $\mathfrak{F}$ be a class of finite groups and
$G$ a finite group. Let
${\mathcal{L}}_{\mathfrak{F}}(G)$ be the set of all subgroups
$A$ of
$G$ with
$A^{G}/A_{G}\in \mathfrak{F}$. A chief factor
$H/K$ of
$G$ is
$\mathfrak{F}$-central in
$G$ if
$(H/K)\rtimes (G/C_{G}(H/K))\in \mathfrak{F}$. We study the structure of
$G$ under the hypothesis that every chief factor of
$G$ between
$A_{G}$ and
$A^{G}$ is
$\mathfrak{F}$-central in
$G$ for every subgroup
$A\in {\mathcal{L}}_{\mathfrak{F}}(G)$. As an application, we prove that a finite soluble group
$G$ is a PST-group if and only if
$A^{G}/A_{G}\leq Z_{\infty }(G/A_{G})$ for every subgroup
$A\in {\mathcal{L}}_{\mathfrak{N}}(G)$, where
$\mathfrak{N}$ is the class of all nilpotent groups.
Research of the first author is supported by the China Scholarship Council and NNSF of China (11771409).