Groups whose cyclic subgroups have bounded permutability properties

It follows from classical results of Neumann and Macdonald that a group G has finite commuator subgroup if and only if either the normalizers of cyclic subgroups of G have boundedly finite indices or cyclic subgroups of G have bounded indices in their normal closures. In this paper, groups with a similar condition are considered, when normality is replaced by permutability.      

Groups with finitely many normalizers of non-abelian subgroups

Abstract A group is called metahamiltonian if all its non-abelian subgroups are normal; it is known that locally soluble metahamiltonian groups have finite commutator subgroup. Here the structure of locally graded groups with finitely many normalizers of (infinite) non-abelian subgroups is investigated, and the above result is extended to this more general situation. Keywords: normalizer subgroup, metahamiltonian group Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 20F24     

On a Generalization of Hamiltonian Groups and a Dualization of PN-Groups

Baer and Wielandt in 1934 and 1958, respectively, considered that the intersection of the normalizers of all subgroups of G and the intersection of the normalizers of all subnormal subgroups of G. In this article, for a finite group G, we define the subgroup S(G) to be intersection of the normalizers of all non-cyclic subgroups of G. Groups whose noncyclic subgroups are normal are studied in this article, as well as groups in which all noncyclic subgroups are normalized by all minimal subgroups. In particular, we extend the results of Passman, Bozikov, and Janko to non-nilpotent finite groups.     

The Schur property for subgroup lattices of groups

A classical theorem of Schur states that if the centre of a group G has finite index, then the commutator subgroup G′ of G is finite. A lattice analogue of this result is proved in this paper: if a group G contains a modularly embedded subgroup of finite index, then there exists a finite normal subgroup N of G such that G/N has modular subgroup lattice. Here a subgroup M of a group G is said to be modularly embedded in G if the lattice is modular for each element x of G. Some consequences of this theorem are also obtained; in particular, the behaviour of groups covered by finitely many subgroups with modular subgroup lattice is described. Received: 16 October 2007, Final version received: 22 February 2008     

On subgroups of finite index in compact Hausdorff groups

Let G be a compact Hausdorff group and n a positive integer. It is proved that all subnormal subgroups of G of index dividing n are open if and only if there are only finitely many such subgroups, and that all subgroups of finite index in G are open if and only if there are only countably many such subgroups.     

Palindromic Width of Finitely Generated Solvable Groups

We investigate the palindromic width of finitely generated solvable groups. We prove that every finitely generated 3-step solvable group has finite palindromic width. More generally, we show the finiteness of the palindromic width for finitely generated abelian-by-nilpotent-by-nilpotent groups. For arbitrary solvable groups of step ≥3, we prove that if G is a finitely generated solvable group that is an extension of an abelian group by a group satisfying the maximal condition for normal subgroups, then the palindromic width of G is finite. We also prove that the palindromic width of ??? with respect to the set of standard generators is 3.     

Groups Whose Finite Homomorphic Images are Metahamiltonian

A group G is metahamiltonian if all its non-abelian subgroups are normal. It is proved here that a finitely generated soluble group is metahamiltonian if and only if all its finite homomorphic images are metahamiltonian; the behaviour of soluble minimax groups with metahamiltonian finite homomorphic images is also investigated. Moreover, groups satisfying the minimal condition on non-metahamiltonian subgroups are described.     

Groups with finitely many derived subgroups of non-normal subgroups

A group is called metahamiltonian if all its non-abelian subgroups are normal; it is known that locally soluble metahamiltonian groups have finite derived subgroup. This result is generalized here, by proving that every locally graded group with finitely many derived subgroups of non-normal subgroups has finite derived subgroup. Moreover, locally graded groups having only finitely many derived subgroups of infinite non-normal subgroups are completely described. Received: 25 April 2005     

Finitely Presented, Coherent, and Ultrasimplicial Ordered Abelian Groups

We study notions such as finite presentability and coherence, for partially ordered abelian groups and vector spaces. Typical results are the following: (i) A partially ordered abelian group G is finitely presented if and only if G is finitely generated as a group, G⁺ is well-founded as a partially ordered set, and the set of minimal elements of G⁺\ {0} is finite. (ii) Torison-free, finitely presented partially ordered abelian groups can be represented as subgroups of some Zⁿ, with a finitely generated submonoid of (Z⁺)ⁿ as positive cone. (iii) Every unperforated, finitely presented partially ordered abelian group is Archimedean. Further, we establish connections with interpolation. In particular, we prove that a divisible dimension group G is a directed union of simplicial subgroups if and only if every finite subset of G is contained into a finitely presented ordered subgroup.     

Groups whose all subgroups are ascendant or self-normalizing

This paper studies groups G whose all subgroups are either ascendant or self-normalizing. We characterize the structure of such G in case they are locally finite. If G is a hyperabelian group and has the property, we show that every subgroup of G is in fact ascendant provided G is locally nilpotent or non-periodic. We also restrict our study replacing ascendant subgroups by permutable subgroups, which of course are ascendant [Stonehewer S.E., Permutable subgroups of infinite groups, Math. Z., 1972, 125(1), 1–16].     

FINITELY GENERATED G′ AND POSITIVE LAWS

We conjecture that a finitely generated relatively free group G has a finitely generated commutator subgroup G′ if and only if G satisfies a positive law. We confirm this conjecture for groups G in the large class, containing all residually finite and all soluble groups.     

Weakly power automorphisms of groups

An automorphism α of a group G is called a weakly power automorphism if it maps every non-periodic subgroup of G onto itself. The aim of this paper is to investigate the behavior of weakly power automorphisms. In particular, among other results, it is proved that all weakly power automorphisms of a soluble non-periodic group G of derived length at most 3 are power automorphisms, i.e. they fix all subgroups of G. This result is best possible, as there exists a soluble non-periodic group of derived length 4 admitting a weakly power automorphism, which is not a power automorphism.     

Profinite groups with nonabelian crowns of bounded rank and their probabilistic zeta function

It has been conjectured by Mann that the infinite sum Σ _H μ(H,G)/|G:H| ^s , where H ranges over all open subgroups of a finitely generated profinite group G, converges absolutely in some half right plane if G is positively finitely generated. We prove that the conjecture is true if the nonabelian crowns of G have bounded rank. In particular Mann’s conjecture holds if G has polynomial subgroup growth or is an adelic profinite group.     

Groups with finiteness conditions on the lower central series of non-normal subgroups

It is known that any locally graded group with finitely many derived subgroups of non-normal subgroups is finite-by-abelian. This result is generalized here, by proving that in a locally graded group G the subgroup \(\gamma _{k}(G)\) is finite if the set \(\{\gamma _{k}(H)\;|\;H\le G,\,H\ntriangleleft G\}\) is finite. Moreover, locally graded groups with finitely many kth terms of lower central series of infinite non-normal subgroups are also completely described.     

On profinite groups in which commutators are covered by finitely many subgroups

For a family of group words w we show that if G is a profinite group in which all w-values are contained in a union of finitely many subgroups with a prescribed property, then the verbal subgroup w(G) has the same property as well. In particular, we show this in the case where the subgroups are periodic or of finite rank. If G contains finitely many subgroups G ₁, G ₂, . . . , G _s of finite exponent e whose union contains all γ _k -values in G, it is shown that γ _k (G) has finite (e, k, s)-bounded exponent. If G contains finitely many subgroups G ₁, G ₂, . . . , G _s of finite rank r whose union contains all γ _k -values, it is shown that γ _k (G) has finite (k, r, s)-bounded rank.     

Plancherel identity for semisimple hopf algebras

In this paper we discuss the structure of some product G =AB of nilpotent subgroups A and B. In particular we prove that if G is a minimax soluble group or a finitely generated linear group and if it does not have non-trivial periodic normal subgroups, then G is metanilpotent.     

The Subgroup Normalizer Problem for Integral Group Rings of Some Nilpotent and Metacyclic Groups

For a group G and a subgroup H of G, this article discusses the normalizer of H in the units of a group ring RG. We prove that H is only normalized by the “obvious” units, namely products of elements of G normalizing H and units of RG centralizing H, provided H is cyclic. Moreover, we show that the normalizers of all subgroups of certain nilpotent and metacyclic groups in the corresponding group rings are as small as possible. These classes contain all dihedral groups, all finite nilpotent groups, and all finite groups with all Sylow subgroups being cyclic.     

Finiteness of orbit structure for real flag manifolds

Let G be a reductive real Lie group, an involutive automorphism of G, and L=G the fixed point set of . It is shown that G has only finitely many L-conjugacy classes of parabolic subgroups, so if P is a parabolic subgroup of G then there are only finitely many L-orbits on the real flag manifold G/P. This is done by showing that G has only finitely many L-conjugacy classes of -stable Cartan subgroups. These results extend known facts for the case where G is a complex group and L is a real form of G.Research partially supported by NSF Grant GP-16651.     

Some finiteness conditions on normalizers or centralizers in groups

We consider the following two finiteness conditions on normalizers and centralizers in a group G: (i) |N_G(H) : H| < ∞ for every H ? G, and (ii) |C_G(x):?x?|<∞ for every ?x??G. We show that (i) and (ii) are equivalent in the classes of locally finite groups and locally nilpotent groups. In both cases, the groups satisfying these conditions are a special kind of cyclic extensions of Dedekind groups. We also study a variation of (i) and (ii), where the requirement of finiteness is replaced with a bound. In this setting, we extend our analysis to the classes of periodic locally graded groups and non-periodic groups. While the two conditions are still equivalent in the former case, in the latter the condition about normalizers is stronger than that about centralizers.     

Average-case complexity and decision problems in group theory

We investigate the average-case complexity of decision problems for finitely generated groups, in particular, the word and membership problems. Using our recent results on “generic-case complexity”, we show that if a finitely generated group G has word problem solvable in subexponential time and has a subgroup of finite index which possesses a non-elementary word-hyperbolic quotient group, then the average-case complexity of the word problem of G is linear time, uniformly with respect to the collection of all length-invariant measures on G. This results applies to many of the groups usually studied in geometric group theory: for example, all braid groups B_n, all groups of hyperbolic knots, many Coxeter groups and all Artin groups of extra-large type.