Search results for "Central series"

On a theorem of Berkovich

2002

In a recent paper, Berkovich studied how to describe the nilpotent residual of a group in terms of the nilpotent residuals of some of its subgroups. That study required the knowledge of the structure of the minimal nonnilpotent groups, also called Schmidt groups. The major aim of this paper is to show that this description could be obtained as a consequence of a more complete property, giving birth to some interesting generalizations. This purpose naturally led us to the study of a family of subgroup-closed saturated formations of nilpotent type. An innovative approach to these classes is provided.

Verbal sets and cyclic coverings

2010

Abstract We consider groups G such that the set of all values of a fixed word w in G is covered by a finite set of cyclic subgroups. Fernandez-Alcober and Shumyatsky studied such groups in the case when w is the word [ x 1 , x 2 ] , and proved that in this case the corresponding verbal subgroup G ′ is either cyclic or finite. Answering a question asked by them, we show that this is far from being the general rule. However, we prove a weaker form of their result in the case when w is either a lower commutator word or a non-commutator word, showing that in the given hypothesis the verbal subgroup w ( G ) must be finite-by-cyclic. Even this weaker conclusion is not universally valid: it fails …

On Finite Solvable Groups That Behave Like Nilpotent Groups with Respect to the Frattini Group

1994

On a Class of Generalized Nilpotent Groups

2002

AbstractWe explore the class B of generalized nilpotent groups in the universe c[formula] of all radical locally finite groups satisfying min-p for every prime p. We obtain that this class is the natural generalization of the class of finite nilpotent groups from the finite universe to the universe c[formula]. Moreover, the structure of B-groups is determined explicitly. It is also shown that B is a subgroup-closed c[formula]-formation and that in every c[formula]-group the Fitting subgroup is the unique maximal normal B-subgroup.

Nilpotent Lie algebras with 2-dimensional commutator ideals

2011

Abstract We classify all (finitely dimensional) nilpotent Lie k -algebras h with 2-dimensional commutator ideals h ′ , extending a known result to the case where h ′ is non-central and k is an arbitrary field. It turns out that, while the structure of h depends on the field k if h ′ is central, it is independent of k if h ′ is non-central and is uniquely determined by the dimension of h . In the case where k is algebraically or real closed, we also list all nilpotent Lie k -algebras h with 2-dimensional central commutator ideals h ′ and dim k h ⩽ 11 .

A note on strongly Lie nilpotency

1991

In this note the authors studies strongly Lie nilpotent rings and proves that if a ringR is strongly Lie nilpotent thenR(2), the ideal generated by all commutators, is nilpotent.

Sylow numbers and nilpotent Hall subgroups

2013

Abstract Let π be a set of primes and G a finite group. We characterize the existence of a nilpotent Hall π-subgroup of G in terms of the number of Sylow subgroups for the primes in π.

On the product of a nilpotent group and a group with non-trivial center

2007

Abstract It is proved that a finite group G = A B which is a product of a nilpotent subgroup A and a subgroup B with non-trivial center contains a non-trivial abelian normal subgroup.

A Characterization of the Class of Finite Groups with Nilpotent Derived Subgroup

2002

The class of all finite groups with nilpotent commutator subgroup is characterized as the largest subgroup-closed saturated formation 𝔉 for which the 𝔉-residual of a group generated by two 𝔉-subnormal subgroups is the subgroup generated by their 𝔉–residuals.

Linear Methods in Nilpotent Groups

1982

The subject of this chapter is commutator calculation. It will be recalled that the commutator [x, y] of two elements x, y of a group is defined by the relation $$ [x,y] = {{x}^{{ - 1}}}{{y}^{{ - 1}}}xy. $$ . We then have $$ [xy,z] = {{[x,z]}^{y}}[y,z],\quad [x,yz] = [x,z]{{[x,y]}^{z}}. $$ . These relations are rather similar to the conditions for bilinearity of forms, and there are a number of ways of formalizing this similarity. Once this is done, commutator calculations can be done by linear methods. Several examples of theorems proved by this method will be given in this chapter.