ON SOME INFINITE DIMENSIONAL LINEAR GROUPS (Q2749038)

Considerable work in recent years has been done on general linear groups over infinite-dimensional vector spaces. This paper is a contribution to this programme. Let \(F\) be a field, \(V\) a vector space over \(F\) and \(G\) a subgroup of \(\text{GL}(V)\). Suppose that every proper \(FG\)-submodule of \(V\) has finite \(F\)-dimension and that \(V\) is the union of its proper \(FG\)-submodules. (The authors say that such a \(G\) is quasi-irreducible.) Suppose also that \(C_G(W)\neq\langle 1\rangle\) for every proper \(FG\)-submodule \(W\) of \(V\). The authors' primary interest here is in such \(G\) that are hypercentral or at least FC-hypercentral and they determine a number of properties of such groups. For example, they prove that such groups \(G\) are Abelian-by-finite.