Characterisation of finitely generated soluble finite-by-nilpotent groups.

Publication date 28 September 2006

Published in Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/108622

finite-by-nilpotent groups finitely generated groups infinite subsets soluble groups

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16)

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For a class of groups \(\mathfrak X\), let \((\mathfrak X,\infty)\) denote the class of groups in which every infinite subset contains two distinct elements generating a subgroup in \(\mathfrak X\). \textit{B. H. Neumann} [J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 21, 467-472 (1976; Zbl 0333.05110)] proved, for the class \(\mathfrak A\) of Abelian groups, that the groups in \((\mathfrak A,\infty)\) are exactly the center-by-finite groups. \textit{J. C. Lennox} and \textit{J. Wiegold} [ibid. 31, 459-463 (1981; Zbl 0492.20019)] showed, for the class \(\mathfrak N\) of nilpotent groups, that a finitely generated soluble group is in \((\mathfrak N,\infty)\) iff it is finite-by-nilpotent. Here are the main results of the paper under review. For \(k>0\), let \(\Omega_k\) be the class of groups \(H\) such that \(\gamma_{k-1}(H)>\gamma_k(H)=\gamma_{k+1}(H)\) (where \(\gamma_i(H)\) is the \(i\)-th member of the lower central series of \(H\)), and \(\Omega=\bigcup_k\Omega_k\). Let \(G\) be a finitely generated soluble group. Then (1) \(G\in(\Omega,\infty)\) iff \(G\) is finite-by-nilpotent, and (2) \(G\in(\Omega_k,\infty)\) iff \(G\) is finite-by-\(\mathfrak N_{k,2}\), where \(\mathfrak N_{k,2}\) is the class of groups in which every two-generated subgroup is \(k\)-step nilpotent.

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