Philip Hall's problem on non-Abelian splitters

DOI10.1017/S0305004102006096MaRDI QIDQ4405572zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rüdiger Göbel, S. Shelah

Publication date 14 October 2003

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009091

zbMATH Keywords

direct squaresextensions of a group by itselfhomomorphismsinner automorphismsnon-Abelian splittersShelah's Black Boxsplit extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Abstract: Philip Hall raised around 1965 the following question which is stated in the Kourovka Notebook: Is there a non-trivial group which is isomorphic with every proper extension of itself by itself? We will decompose the problem into two parts: We want to find non-commutative splitters, that are groups G not= 1 with Ext(G,G)=1 . The class of splitters fortunately is quite large so that extra properties can be added to G. We can consider groups G with the following properties: There is a complete group L with cartesian product L^omega cong G, Hom(L^omega,S_omega)=0 (S_omega the infinite symmetric group acting on omega) and End(L,L)=Inn(L) cup {0}. We will show that these properties ensure that G is a splitter and hence obviously a Hall-group in the above sense. Then we will apply a recent result from our joint paper math.GR/0009089 which also shows that such groups exist, in fact there is a class of Hall-groups which is not a set.

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