On the Countable Recognition of Finitary Groups

DOI10.1112/S0024610797004924MaRDI QIDQ4349854zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. A. F. Wehrfritz

Publication date 23 November 1997

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/s0024610797004924

zbMATH Keywords

countable subgroupscountably recognizable periodic primitive finitary linear groupsfaithful finitary linear representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Local properties of groups (20E25) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

Review text

It is natural to ask, how common is it for a group to have a faithful finitary linear (or possibly only skew linear) representation, whenever each of its countable subgroups has such a representation? If the group is also simple, it does, and this is due to J. I. Hall. In recent, as yet unpublished, work F. Leinen and O. Puglisi have shown that periodic primitive finitary linear groups are also, in this sense, countably recognizable. Here we consider the first non-obvious case at the opposite extreme to the simple groups (and also in some sense to the primitive groups), namely the case of the nilpotent groups. Let \(G\) be a periodic locally nilpotent group such that each countable subgroup of \(G\) is isomorphic to a finitary skew linear group. We prove that \(G\) satisfies much of the known structure of locally nilpotent finitary linear groups. If also \(G\) is hypercentral of central height at most \(\omega\), we prove, subject to certain natural characteristic restrictions, that \(G\) is isomorphic to a finitary linear group.

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