Locally nilpotent groups with the centralizers satisfying a finiteness condition

Locally nilpotent groups, in which the centralizer of a certain finitely generated subgroup satisfies a certain finiteness condition, are studied. It is proved that if a locally nilpotent group contains a finitely generated subgroup F such that C_G(F) has finite rank, then the center of G is nontrivial.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, Nos. 7 and 8, pp. 1084–1087, July–August, 1991.     

Supersolvable Frobenius groups with nilpotent centralizers

Let FH be a supersolvable Frobenius group with kernel F and complement H. Suppose that a finite group G admits FH as a group of automorphisms in such a manner that $C_G(F)=1$ and $C_G(H)$ is nilpotent of class c. We show that G is nilpotent of $(c,\left|FH\right|)$-bounded class.     

Locally nilpotent groups with a centralizer of finite rank

Locally nilpotent groups in which the centralizer of some finitely generated subgroup has finite rank are studied. It is shown that if G is such a group and F is a finitely generated subgroup with centralizer C_G(F) of finite rank, then the centralizer of the image of F in the factor group G/t(G) modulo the periodic part t(G) also has finite rank. It is also shown that G is hypercentral when F is cyclic and either G is torsion-free or all Sylow subgroups of the periodic part of C_G(F) are finite.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 1511–1517, November, 1992.     

Locally minimal topological groups 2

We continue in this paper the study of locally minimal groups started in Außenhofer et al. (2010) [4]. The minimality criterion for dense subgroups of compact groups is extended to local minimality. Using this criterion we characterize the compact abelian groups containing dense countable locally minimal subgroups, as well as those containing dense locally minimal subgroups of countable free-rank. We also characterize the compact abelian groups whose torsion part is dense and locally minimal. We call a topological group G almost minimal if it has a closed, minimal normal subgroup N such that the quotient group G/N is uniformly free from small subgroups. The class of almost minimal groups includes all locally compact groups, and is contained in the class of locally minimal groups. On the other hand, we provide examples of countable precompact metrizable locally minimal groups which are not almost minimal. Some other significant properties of this new class are obtained.     

Locally minimal topological groups 1

The aim of this paper is to go deeper into the study of local minimality and its connection to some naturally related properties. A Hausdorff topological group (G,τ) is called locally minimal if there exists a neighborhood U of 0 in τ such that U fails to be a neighborhood of zero in any Hausdorff group topology on G which is strictly coarser than τ. Examples of locally minimal groups are all subgroups of Banach-Lie groups, all locally compact groups and all minimal groups. Motivated by the fact that locally compact NSS groups are Lie groups, we study the connection between local minimality and the NSS property, establishing that under certain conditions, locally minimal NSS groups are metrizable. A symmetric subset of an abelian group containing zero is said to be a GTG set if it generates a group topology in an analogous way as convex and symmetric subsets are unit balls for pseudonorms on a vector space. We consider topological groups which have a neighborhood basis at zero consisting of GTG sets. Examples of these locally GTG groups are: locally pseudoconvex spaces, groups uniformly free from small subgroups (UFSS groups) and locally compact abelian groups. The precise relation between these classes of groups is obtained: a topological abelian group is UFSS if and only if it is locally minimal, locally GTG and NSS. We develop a universal construction of GTG sets in arbitrary non-discrete metric abelian groups, that generates a strictly finer non-discrete UFSS topology and we characterize the metrizable abelian groups admitting a strictly finer non-discrete UFSS group topology. Unlike the minimal topologies, the locally minimal ones are always available on “large” groups. To support this line, we prove that a bounded abelian group G admits a non-discrete locally minimal and locally GTG group topology iff |G|?c.     

Locally nilpotent groups satisfying the weak minimum or maximum condition for subgroups of bounded nilpotency class

We study locally nilpotent groups containing subgroups of classc, c>1, and satisfying the weak maximum condition or the weak minimum condition on c-nilpotent subgroups. It is proved that nilpotent groups of this type are minimax and periodic locally nilpotent groups of this type are Chernikov groups. It is also proved that if a group G is either nilpotent or periodic locally nilpotent and if all of its c-nilpotent subgroups are of finite rank, then G is of finite rank. If G is a non-periodic locally nilpotent group, these results, in general, are not valid.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 384–389, March, 1992.     

Locally nilpotent groups of finite non-Abelian sectional rank

We introduce the notion of non-Abelian sectional rank of a group and study locally nilpotent non-Abelian groups of finite non-Abelian sectional rank. It is proved that the (special) rank of these groups is finite.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 452–455, April, 1995.     

Locally nilpotent linear groups with restrictions on their subgroups of infinite central dimension

Let F be a field and V a vector space over F. If G is a subgroup of GL(V, F), then we define the central dimension of G (denoted by centdim _F G) as the F-dimension of the factor-space V/C _V (G). In this paper, we continue the study of locally nilpotent linear groups satisfying the weak minimal or the weak maximal condition on their subgroups of infinite central dimension started in Kurdachenko et al. (Publ Mat 52:151–169, 2008). Supported by Proyecto MTM2007-60994 of Dirección General de Investigación MEC (Spain).