Decomposability of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups

DOI10.1142/S0218196716500673MaRDI QIDQ2955409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gilbert Baumslag, Charles F. III Miller, Gretchen Ostheimer

Publication date 25 January 2017

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05632

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmnilpotent groupsdirect decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solvable, nilpotent (super)algebras (17B30) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Associated Lie structures for groups (20F40)

Abstract: We describe an algorithm for deciding whether or not a given finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent group is decomposable as the direct product of nontrivial subgroups.

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