CC-groups with periodic central factor

A group G is said to be a group with Černikov conjugacy classes or a CC-group if it induces on the normal closure of each one of its elements a group of automorphisms which is a Černikov group, that is, a finite extension of an abelian group satisfying the minimal condition on subgroups. This concept is a natural extension of that an FC-group, that is, a group in which every element has a finite number of conjugates. It is known that if G is an FC-group then the central factor G/Z(G) is periodic. This result does not hold for CC-groups and in this paper we study CC-groups G in which the central factor G/Z(G) is periodic, a finiteness condition which has a deep influence on the structure of the group G. In particular, we characterize those CC-groups as above that are FC-groups by imposing some additional conditions on their structure. This research has been supported by DGICYT (Spain) PS88-0085     

Injectors of locally soluble FC-groups

For a Fitting setF of a locally soluble FC-group, the existence and local conjugacy ofF is established. In particular, the locally nilpotent injectors are described. Normally embedded subgroups of locally soluble FC-groups are characterized in terms of Fischer sets.     

Free actions of virtually FC-groups

If an infinite group G admits a free action by a group of automorphisms A which is virtually an FC-group and which has only finitely many orbits, then G is isomorphic to the additive group of a field and the action is that of a group of semilinear transformations. Received: 21 February 2005     

Isomorphisms between lattices of almost normal subgroups

A subgroupH of a groupG is said to bealmost normal inG if it has only finitely many conjugates inG. The setan(G) of almost normal subgroups ofG is a sublattice of the lattice of all subgroups ofG. Isomorphisms between lattices of almost normal subgroups ofFC-soluble groups are considered in this paper. In particular, properties of images of normal subgroups under such an isomorphism are investigated.     

On the structure of two-generated hyperbolic groups

We show that every two-generated torsion-free one-ended word-hyperbolic group has virtually cyclic outer automorphism group. This is done by computing the JSJ-decomposition for two-generator hyperbolic groups. We further prove that two-generated torsion-free word-hyperbolic groups are strongly accessible. This means that they can be constructed from groups with no nontrivial cyclic splittings by applying finitely many free products with amalgamation and HNN-extensions over cyclic subgroups. Received June 25, 1998     

Lacunary free actions on the real line

All groups of free homeomorphisms of the real line are determined up to topological conjugacy. Surprisingly, many of them are lacunary in the sense that no orbit is dense, although the groups themselves (with the exception of the infinite cyclic group) are dense subgroups of $\text{R}$₊. Such pathological behaviour is, however, impossible for normal subgroups of transitive groups.     

Macpherson's chern classes of singular algebraic varieties

Sacerdote [Sa] has shown that the non-Abelian free groups satisfy precisely the same universal-existential sentences Th(F₂)??? in a first-order language Lo appropriate for group theory. It is shown that in every model of Th(F₂)??? the maximal Abelian subgroups are elementarily equivalent to locally cyclic groups (necessarily nontrivial and torsion free). Two classes of groups are interpolated between the non-Abelian locally free groups and Remeslennikov’s ?-free groups. These classes are the almost locally free groups and the quasi-locally free groups. In particular, the almost locally free groups are the models of Th(F₂)??? while the quasi-locally free groups are the ?-free groups with maximal Abelian subgroups elementarily equivalent to locally cyclic groups (necessarily nontrivial and torsion free). Two principal open questions at opposite ends of a spectrum are: (1.) Is every finitely generated almost locally free group free? (2.) Is every quasi-locally free group almost locally free? Examples abound of finitely generated quasi-locally free groups containing nontrivial torsion in their Abelianizations. The question of whether or not almost locally free groups have torsion free Abelianization is related to a bound in a free group on the number of factors needed to express certain elements of the derived group as a product of commutators     

On Groups with Certain Proper FC-Subgroups

Algebras and Representation Theory - Let G be a group. If for every proper normal subgroup N and element x of G with N〈x〉≠G, N〈x〉 is an FC-group, but G is not an...     

Covering a semi-direct product and intersective polynomials

For a certain semi-direct product, we construct a 3-cover, consisting of three subgroups, the union of whose conjugates equals the whole group, while the intersection of the conjugates is trivial. This enables a classification of a new family of intersective polynomials. These polynomials have no rational root but do have a root modulo every positive integer.     

Almost Hamiltonian Groups

In this paper we investigate the following problem in Group Theory: which properties $cal P$ transfer (or do not transfer) from all cyclic subgroups, or all abelian subgroups to all arbitrary subgroups? We solve this problem completely when $cal P$ is the property of having finite index in its normal closure, proving that $cal P$ carries from abelian, but not from cyclic to arbitrary subgroups. We use primarily some results of B.H. Neumann.     

Symmetric Groups as Products of Abelian Subgroups

A proof is given that the full symmetric group over any infiniteset is the product of finitely many Abelian subgroups. In fact,289 subgroups suffice. Sharp bounds are also obtained on theminimal number k, such that the finite symmetric group S_n isthe product of k Abelian subgroups. Using this, S_n is provedto be the product of 72n^1/2(log n)^3/2 cyclic subgroups. 2000Mathematics Subject Classification 20B30, 20D40.     

An Extension of a Theorem by B.H. Neumann on Groups with Boundedly Finite Conjugacy Classes

The source of this paper is a classical theorem by B. H. Neumann on groups whose conjugacy classes are boundedly finite. In a natural way this leads to the study of groups with restrictions on the normal closures of their cyclic subgroups. More concretely, in this paper we study groups G such that the normal closure of every cyclic subgroup ${{\langle{g}\rangle}}$ has a divisible Chernikov G-invariant subgroup D of minimax rank r such that gD has at most b conjugates in the factorgroup G/D. We prove that such groups are Chernikov-by-abelian and bound their invariants in terms of r and b only.     

The number of chains of subgroups of a finite cyclic group

T?rn?uceanu and Bentea [M. T?rn?uceanu, L. Bentea, On the number of fuzzy subgroups of finite abelian groups, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 159 (2008) 1084-1096] gave an explicit formula for the number of chains of subgroups in the lattice of a finite cyclic group by finding its generating function of one variable. Using this result T?rn?uceanu [M. T?rn?uceanu, Fuzzy subgroups of finite cyclic groups and Delannoy numbers, European J. Combin. 30 (2009) 283-287] found an explicit formula for the central Delannoy number. In this note we find a generating function of multi-variables for the number of chains of subgroups in the lattice of subgroups of a finite cyclic group. As results we give simplified formulas for the number of chains of subgroups in the lattice of subgroups of a finite cyclic group and for the central Delannoy numbers compared with the formulas given by T?rn?uceanu and Bentea.     

On the number of cyclic subgroups of a group

Abstract

There has been some interest in understanding the relationship between the number of cyclic subgroups of a group and its order. This relationship is controlled in many cases by the size of the set of non-squares of the group. We improve upon previously established bounds and classify groups that obtain our new bound.     

Parabolic and quasiparabolic subgroups of free partially commutative groups

Let Γ be a finite graph and G be the corresponding free partially commutative group. In this paper we study subgroups generated by vertices of the graph Γ, which we call canonical parabolic subgroups. A natural extension of the definition leads to canonical quasiparabolic subgroups. It is shown that the centralisers of subsets of G are the conjugates of canonical quasiparabolic centralisers satisfying certain graph theoretic conditions.     

On the residual finiteness of free products of solvable minimax groups with cyclic amalgamated subgroups

A necessary and sufficient condition for the residual finiteness of a (generalized) free product of two residually finite solvable-by-finite minimax groups with cyclic amalgamated subgroups is obtained. This generalizes the well-known Dyer theorem claiming that every free product of two polycyclic-by-finite groups with cyclic amalgamated subgroups is a residually finite group.     

Subgroups of ideal class groups of real quadratic algebraic function fields

Necessary and sufficient condition on real quadratic algebraic function fields K is given for their ideal class groups H(K) to contain cyclic subgroups of order n. And eight series of such real quadratic function fields K are obtained whose ideal class groups contain cyclic subgroups of order n. In particular, the ideal class numbers of these function fields are divisible by n.     

Groups with finitary classes of conjugate elements

A class of conjugate elements of a group is called finitary if the conjugation action of the group induces a group of finitary permutations of this class. A group with finitary classes of conjugate elements will be called a ΦC-group. Some characterizations of ΦC-groups in the class of all groups have been obtained. It is also shown for every ΦC-group that either it is an FC-group, i.e., a group with finite classes of conjugate elements, or its structure is close to the structure of a totally imprimitive group of finitary permutations.     

Finite metacyclic groups as active sums of cyclic subgroups

The notion of active sum provides an analogue for groups of what the direct sum is for abelian groups. One natural question then is which groups are the active sum of a family of cyclic subgroups. Many groups have been found to give a positive answer to this question, while the case of finite metacyclic groups remained unknown. In this note we show that every finite metacyclic group can be recovered as the active sum of a discrete family of cyclic subgroups.     

Finite Soluble Group Generated by the Conjugacy Class of an Involution

Let G be a finite group and P a subgroup of order 2. We study in this article the structures of the soluble subgroup of G that is generated by three conjugates of P. We use the results we proved about the soluble subgroups that are generated by three conjugates of P to find a soluble analogue of the Baer–Suzuki Theorem in the case prime 2.