KT-nearfields of rank 2

Summary Nearfields of rank 2 over their kernel which are not Dickson nearfields have recently been constructed by H. Zassenhaus. Here it is shown that KT-nearfields of rank 2 over their kernels and of characteristic 2 are necessarily Dickson nearfields which are coupled to quadratic field extensions and their Dickson group is isomorphic to ₂. Using results of Gröger one obtains all KT-nearfields of rank 2 over the field of rational numbers.     

Sharply 2- and 3-transitive groups with kernels of finite index

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On pure subgroups of locally compact abelian groups

In this note, we construct an example of a locally compact abelian group G = C × D (where C is a compact group and D is a discrete group) and a closed pure subgroup of G having nonpure annihilator in the Pontrjagin dual $\hat{G}$, answering a question raised by Hartman and Hulanicki. A simple proof of the following result is given: Suppose ${\frak K}$ is a class of locally compact abelian groups such that $G \in {\frak K}$ implies that $\hat{G} \in {\frak K}$ and nG is closed in G for each positive integer n. If H is a closed subgroup of a group $G \in {\frak K}$, then H is topologically pure in G exactly if the annihilator of H is topologically pure in $\hat{G}$. This result extends a theorem of Hartman and Hulanicki.Received: 4 April 2002     

Free actions on handlebodies

The equivalence (or weak equivalence) classes of orientation-preserving free actions of a finite group G on an orientable three-dimensional handlebody of genus g?1 can be enumerated in terms of sets of generators of G. They correspond to the equivalence classes of generating n-vectors of elements of G, where n=1+(g−1)/|G|, under Nielsen equivalence (or weak Nielsen equivalence). For Abelian and dihedral G, this allows a complete determination of the equivalence and weak equivalence classes of actions for all genera. Additional information is obtained for other classes of groups. For all G, there is only one equivalence class of actions on the genus g handlebody if g is at least 1+?(G)|G|, where ?(G) is the maximal length of a chain of subgroups of G. There is a stabilization process that sends an equivalence class of actions to an equivalence class of actions on a higher genus, and some results about its effects are obtained.     

On commuting automorphisms of groups

This paper examines group automorphisms for which each element commutes with its image. These automorphisms do not necessarily form a subgroup of the automorphism group, but have a number of interesting properties, close to those of central automorphisms. Research of the first named author was supported by Grant SM 177 from Kuwait University Research Administration.     

Dense orbits of automorphisms and compactness of groups

It is proved, by using topological properties, that when a group automorphism of a locally compact totally disconnected group is ergodic under the Haar measure, the group is compact. The result is an answer for Halmos's question that has remained open for the totally disconnected case.     

On the arc component of a locally compact Abelian group

For a topological group G, we denote by G _a the arc component of the neutral element and by the character group of G, i.e. the group of all continuous homomorphisms from G into T. We prove the following theorem: Let G be a connected locally compact abelian group and let be the embedding. Then is a topological isomorphism. In particular, the character group of the arc component of a compact abelian group is discrete. Some conclusions will be drawn.     

Normal subgroups and elementary theories of lattice-ordered groups

We show that any lattice-ordered group (l-group) G can be l-embedded into continuously many l-groups H _i which are pairwise elementarily inequivalent both as groups and as lattices with constant e. Our groups H _i can be distinguished by group-theoretical first-order properties which are induced by lattice-theoretically nice properties of their normal subgroup lattices. Moreover, they can be taken to be 2-transitive automorphism groups A(S _i ) of infinite linearly ordered sets (S _i , ) such that each group A(S _i ) has only inner automorphisms. We also show that any countable l-group G can be l-embedded into a countable l-group H whose normal subgroup lattice is isomorphic to the lattice of all ideals of the countable dense Boolean algebra B.     

Automorphism groups of nilpotent groups

We construct a full class of nilpotent groups of class 2 of an arbitrary infinite cardinality . Their centers, commutator subgroups and factors modulo the center will be the same and a homogeneous direct sum of a group of rank 1 or 2. Their automorphism groups will coincide and the factor group modulo the stabilizer could be an arbitrary group of size $\leqq$ .     

Pro-p galois groups of rank ≤4

Letp be a prime >2, letF be a field of characteristic ≠p containing a primitivep-th root of unity and letG _F (p) be the Galois group of the maximal Galois-p-extension ofF. Ifrk G _F (p)≤4 thenG _F (p) is a free pro-p product of metabelian groups orG _F (p) is a Demuškin group of rank 4.     

Semilinear representations of PGL

Let L be the function field of a projective space over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero, and H be the group of projective transformations. An H-sheaf on is a collection of isomorphisms for each g ∈ H satisfying the chain rule. We construct, for any n > 1, a fully faithful functor from the category of finite-dimensional L-semilinear representations of H extendable to the semigroup End(L/k) to the category of coherent H-sheaves on The paper is motivated by a study of admissible representations of the automorphism group G of an algebraically closed extension of k of countable transcendence degree undertaken in [4]. The semigroup End(L/k) is considered as a subquotient of G, hence the condition on extendability. In the appendix it is shown that, if is either H, or a bigger subgroup in the Cremona group (generated by H and a certain pair of involutions), then any semilinear of degree one is an integral L-tensor power of It is also shown that this bigger subgroup has no non-trivial representations of finite degree if n > 1.     

Rédei-Funktionen für Zweierpotenzen

L. Rédei has introduced in 1946 a class of rational functions over finite fields of orderp ^t –p being an odd prime — and has proved some interesting results on permutations which are induced by these functions. Recently, similar results have been found for factor rings of the integers of orderp ^t ; moreover, these functions have been applied to construct public key cryptosystems. In this paper we consider functions of Rédei type over finite fields and factor rings of the integers of order 2 ^t . We show that most of the results for oddp also hold in this case.

     

Semi-multiplication modules

This paper forms a portion of the Ph.D dissertation written by the first author under the supervision of the second author, and submitted to the University of Baghdad in 1990.