Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let $G$ be a finite group and let
$A\left( G \right)$ denote the Burnside ring of
$G$. Then an inverse limit
$L\left( G \right)$ of the groups
$A\left( H \right)$ for proper subgroups
$H$ of
$G$ and a homomorphism res from
$A\left( G \right)$ to
$L\left( G \right)$ are obtained in a natural way. Let
$Q\left( G \right)$ denote the cokernel of res. For a prime
$p$, let
$N\left( p \right)$ be the minimal normal subgroup of
$G$ such that the order of
${G}/{N}\;\left( p \right)$ is a power of
$p$, possibly 1. In this paper we prove that
$Q\left( G \right)$ is isomorphic to the cartesian product of the groups
$Q\left( {G}/{N\left( p \right)}\; \right)$, where
$p$ ranges over the primes dividing the order of
$G$.