In mathematical[[Group theory#Finite group theory|finite group theory]], a branch of [[mathematics]], a '''Thompson factorization''', introduced by {{harvs|txt|authorlink=John G. Thompson|year=1966|last=Thompson}}, is a an expression of some [[finite groupsgroup]]s as a product of two subgroups[[subgroup]]s, usually [[centralizer and normalizer|normalizers]] or [[centralizer and normalizer|centralizers]] of [[p-group|''p''-subgroups]] for some [[prime number|prime]] ''p''.
==References==
*{{Citation | last1=Aschbacher | first1=Michael | author1-link=Michael Aschbacher | title=Finite group theory | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | edition=2nd | series=Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics | isbn= 0-521-78145-0 | mr=1777008 | year=2000 | volume=10}}