On the residual nilpotence of free products of free groups with cyclic amalgamation

LetG be a free product of free groups with cyclic amalgamation. In this note we prove a criterion for the groupG to be a residually finitep-group. Other residual properties of the groupG are also established.Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 3–8, July, 1998.The author wishes to thank Professor D. I. Moldavanskii for a number of important remarks and valuable advice in the preparation of this paper.     

On the existence of solvable normal subgroups in finite groups

The structure of a finite group in dependence on the structure of the subgroups generated by elements of its conjugate class is considered. Translated fromMatematischeskie Zametki, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 755–758, May, 1997. Translated by A. I. Shtern     

On complemented subgroups of finite groups

A subgroup H of a group G is said to be complemented in G if there exists a subgroup K of G such that G = HK and H ⋂ K = 1. In this paper we determine the structure of finite groups with some complemented primary subgroups, and obtain some new results about p-nilpotent groups.     

On sylowizers in finite <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-soluble groups

In general, given a finite group G, a prime p and a p-subgroup R of G, the sylowizers of R in G are not conjugate. In this paper we afford some conditions to achieve the conjugation of the sylowizers of R in a p-soluble group G, among others

On the p-Length of a Product of Two Schmidt Groups

It is established that a finite p-solvable group presenting the product of two of its Schmidt subgroups has p-length at most 2.     

Characteristic properties of large subgroups in primary abelian groups

SupposeG is an arbitrary additively written primary abelian group with a fixed large subgroupL. It is shown thatG is (a) summable; (b) σ-summable; (c) a Σ-group; (d) p^ω+1-projecrive only when so isL. These claims extend results of such a kind obtained by Benabdallah, Eisenstadt, Irwin and Poluianov,Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hungaricae (1970) and Khan,Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Sect. A (1978).     

Solvable infinite-dimensional linear groups with restrictions on the nonabelian subgroups of infinite rank

Under study are the solvable nonabelian linear groups of infinite central dimension and sectional p-rank, p ≥ 0, in which all proper nonabelian subgroups of infinite sectional p-rank have finite central dimension. We describe the structure of the groups of this class.     

On the regular Sylow p-subgroups of Chevalley groups over \mathbb{Z}_{p^m }

We prove that a Sylow p-subgroup of the general linear group of dimension n over the residue ring modulo p ^m is regular for n ² < p and powerful if and only if n = 2 and m = 1. We obtain similar results for the Sylow p-subgroups of normal types over the same ring.     

On superstable groups with residual properties

Given a pseudovariety 𝒞, it is proved that a residually-𝒞 superstable group G has a finite series G ₀ ⊴ G ₁ ⊴ · · · ⊴ G _n = G such that G ₀ is solvable and each factor G _{i +1}/G _i is in 𝒞 (0 ≤ i ≤ n – 1). In particular, a residually finite superstable group is solvable-by-finite, and if it is ω -stable, then it is nilpotent-by-finite. Given a finitely generated group G, we show that if G is ω -stable and satisfies some residual properties (residual solvability, residual finiteness, …), then G is finite. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Grothendieck''s problem on profinite completions and representations of groups

The paper is concerned with Grothendieck's problem on profinite completions of groups. The relationship of this problem to the representation theory of finitely generated groups and to the problem of arithmeticity of Platonov are treated.To Professor A. Grothendieck on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday     

On the number of conjugacy classes of finite nilpotent groups

We establish the first super-logarithmic lower bound for the number of conjugacy classes of a finite nilpotent group. In particular, we obtain that for any constant c there are only finitely many finite p-groups of order pm with at most c⋅m conjugacy classes. This answers a question of L. Pyber.     

Infinitely divisible probabilities on linearp-adic groups

In this paper we extend the work of Shah, on the structure of infinitely divisible probabilities onp-adic linear groups, to give a classification for all such probabilities.     

Weakly infinitely divisible measures on some locally compact Abelian groups

On the torus group, on the group of p-adic integers, and on the p-adic solenoid, we give a construction of an arbitrary weakly infinitely divisible probability measure using a random element with values in a product of (possibly infinitely many) subgroups of ℝ. As a special case of our results, we have a new construction of the Haar measure on the p-adic solenoid.     

A result about Abelian automorphism groups

Some new techniques are given to prove that two sorts of Abelian groups cannot function as the full automorphism groups of the finite groups. With generality these techniques made a breakthrough in MacHale’s problem. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

The permutation action of finite symplectic groups of odd characteristic on their standard modules

We study the space of functions on a finite-dimensional vector space over a field of odd order as a module for a symplectic group. We construct a basis of this module with the following special properties. Each submodule generated by a single basis element under the symplectic group action is spanned as a vector space by a subset of the basis and has a unique maximal submodule. From these properties, the dimension and composition factors of the submodule generated by any subset of the basis can be determined. These results apply to incidence geometry of the symplectic polar space, yielding the symplectic analogue of Hamada's additive formula for the p-ranks of the incidence matrices between points and flats. A special case leads to a closed formula for the p-rank of the incidence matrix between the points and lines of the symplectic generalized quadrangle over a field of odd order. Together with earlier results on the 2-ranks, this result completes the determination of the p-ranks for these quadrangles.     

Braid groups are linear

The braid group can be defined as the mapping class group of the -punctured disk. A group is said to be linear if it admits a faithful representation into a group of matrices over . Recently Daan Krammer has shown that a certain representation of the braid groups is faithful for the case . In this paper, we show that it is faithful for all .

     

On the Fontaine–Mazur Conjecture for CM-Fields

Fontaine and Mazur conjecture that a number field k has no infinite unramified Galois extension such that its Galois group is a p-adic analytic pro-p-group. We consider this conjecture for the maximal unramified p-extension of a CM-field k.     

Local embeddings of some families of subgroups of finite groups

In this paper we study the influence of the partial cover and avoidance property on the subgroups of some relevant families of subgroups in a finite group.     

On half cyclically ordered groups

In this paper we introduce and investigate the notion of half cyclically ordered group generalizing the notion of half partially ordered group whose study was begun by Giraudet and Lucas.