Absolutely closed nil-2 groups

DOI10.1007/S000120050124MaRDI QIDQ5950781zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arturo Magidin

Publication date 17 December 2001

Published in Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803042

zbMATH Keywords

absolutely closed groupsamalgamsdominionsvarieties of nilpotent groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasivarieties and varieties of groups (20E10) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

Abstract: Using the description of dominions in the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most two, we give a characterization of which groups are absolutely closed in this variety. We use the general result to derive an easier characterization for some subclasses; e.g. an abelian group $G$ is absolutely closed in ${calN}_2$ if and only if $G/pG$ is cyclic for every prime $p$.

Review text

Let \(\mathcal C\) be a variety of algebras of a fixed type, \(A\in{\mathcal C}\) and \(B\) be a subalgebra of \(A\). Then the dominion \(\text{dom}^{\mathcal C}_A(B)\) of \(B\) in \(A\) is the intersection of all equalizers containing \(B\), explicitly \(\text{dom}^{\mathcal C}_A(B)=\{a\in A; \forall f,g\colon A\to C\), if \(f|B=g|B\) then \(f(a)=g(a)\}\). An algebra \(B\in{\mathcal C}\) is called absolutely closed in \(\mathcal C\) if and only if \(\text{dom}^{\mathcal C}_A(B)=B\) for every \(A\in{\mathcal C}\) with \(B\subseteq A\). The author characterizes absolutely closed groups in the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most two and uses the general result to derive an easier characterization for some subclasses.

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