Classes of groups which resemble varieties

DOI10.1007/BF01191488MaRDI QIDQ762272zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. F. Bowers

Publication date 1984

Published in Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01191488

zbMATH Keywords

closure propertiesdescending series of subgroupsfully-invariant subgrouplocally closedordinalresidually closedsubgroup closedtorsion-free generalized soluble groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Quasivarieties and varieties of groups (20E10) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generalizations of solvable and nilpotent groups (20F19) Other classes of groups defined by subgroup chains (20F22)

Review text

This paper studies certain classes of groups defined in a uniform although rather complicated way. The purpose is to provide a general setting which encompasses cases of known interest such as certain classes of torsion-free generalized soluble groups. The main results of the paper show that the classes enjoy certain closure properties. Starting with a given set of words, the author defines for each group G and each ordinal \(\alpha\) a fully-invariant subgroup \(\xi_{\alpha}(G)\) of G. Then \(X_{\alpha}\) is defined to be the class of all groups G for which \(\xi_{\alpha}(G)=1\), and X is the union of the classes \(X_{\alpha}\) where \(\alpha\) is finite. It is shown that each \(X_{\alpha}\) is subgroup closed and that \(X_{\alpha}\) is the class of all groups having a descending series of subgroups which has length \(\alpha\) and where the factors are of a certain type. It is proved that \(X_{\alpha}\) is residually closed and that when \(\alpha\) is finite \(X_{\alpha}\) is locally closed. When certain extra conditions hold X is poly closed. One example of the general construction gives X as the class of all completely infinite groups, previously studied by the author [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 28, 595-613 (1974; Zbl 0288.20034)]. In another example, corresponding to a given prime number p, a finitely generated group G belongs to \(X_{\omega}\) if and only if G is residually a finite p-group.

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