Lifting Automorphisms of Quotients by Central Subgroups

Abstract: Given a finitely presented group

G

, we wish to explore the conditions under which automorphisms of quotients

G / N

can be lifted to automorphisms of

G

. We discover that in the case where

N

is a central subgroup of

G

, the question of lifting can be reduced to solving a certain matrix equation. We then use the techniques developed to show that

I n n (G)

is not characteristic in

A u t (G)

, where

G

is a metacyclic group of order

p^{n}

,

p e q 2

.

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