In finite group theory, a branch of mathematics, a block, sometimes called Aschbacher block, is a subgroup giving an obstruction to Thompson factorization and pushing up.
Blocks were introduced by Michael Aschbacher.
A group L is called short if it has the following properties (Aschbacher & Smith 2004, definition C.1.7): An example of a short group is the semidirect product of a quasisimple group with an irreducible module over the 2-element field F2 A block of a group G is a short subnormal subgroup.