Hall's criterion for nilpotence in semi-abelian categories

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2019.04.025zbMATH Open1440.20003arXiv1811.10344OpenAlexW2900613346MaRDI QIDQ2417752FDOQ2417752

Authors: James Richard Andrew Gray 

Publication date: 29 May 2019

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A well-known theorem of P. Hall, usually called Hall's criterion for nilpotence, states: a group G is nilpotent whenever it has a normal subgroup N such that G/[N,N] and N are nilpotent. We widely generalize this result, replacing groups with objects in an abstract semi-abelian category satisfying suitable conditions. In particular, these conditions are satisfied in any algebraically coherent semi-abelian category, and hence in many categories of classical algebraic structures (including a few where Hall's theorem is already known). Note that the categories of crossed modules, crossed Lie algebras, n-cat groups, and cocommutative Hopf algebras over fields are also algebraically coherent. We give, however, a counter-example showing that Hall's theorem does not hold in the (semi-abelian) variety of non-associative rings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10344

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zbMATH Keywords

nilpotentalgebraic coherenceHall's criterion for nilpotencesemi-abeliancommutator latticethree subgroups lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abelian categories, Grothendieck categories (18E10) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

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