Groups with trivial virtual automorphism group

DOI10.1007/BF02773748MaRDI QIDQ755887zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Menegazzo, M. J. Tomkinson

Publication date 1990

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02773748

zbMATH Keywords

extraspecial 2-groupfinite central derived subgroupinfinite groupssubgroups of finite indexvirtual automorphism group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General structure theorems for groups (20E34) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50)

Review text

The authors consider groups G with the following property: Let H,K be subgroups of finite index in G and \(\phi: H\to K\) an isomorphism. Then there exists a subgroup L of \(H\cap K\) of finite index in G such that \(\phi\) is the identity on L. A finite group has this property. Mann and Lubotzky asked whether there exist infinite groups with this property. The authors answer this question by giving two examples of infinite groups having this property. The first example is an extraspecial 2-group of cardinality \(2^{\aleph_ 0}\) and the second example is a 2-group again of cardinality \(2^{\aleph_ 0}\) with derived subgroup isomorphic to a 4-group. It is an open problem whether there exists a group of countable cardinality with this property. They use a result of \textit{F. Menegazzo} and \textit{D. J. S. Robinson} [Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova 78, 267-277 (1987; Zbl 0637.20017)] and prove first that such a group G is virtually a 2-group with finite central derived subgroup and \(G/G\) elementary abelian.

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