On the existence of group inverses of Peirce corner matrices

We give some statements that are equivalent to the existence of group inverses of Peirce corner matrices of a $2 \times 2$ block matrix and its generalized Schur complements. As applications, several new results for the Drazin inverses of the generalized Schur complements and the $2 \times 2$ block matrix are obtained and some of them generalize several results in the literature.