The automorphism tower problem revisited

DOI10.1006/AIMA.1999.1852MaRDI QIDQ1969247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Winfried Just, S. Shelah, Simon Thomas

Publication date 11 December 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003120

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism towerscentreless groupsinner automorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consistency and independence results (03E35) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

Abstract: It is well-known that the automorphism towers of infinite centreless groups of cardinality kappa terminate in less than (2^{kappa})^+ steps. But an easy counting argument shows that (2^{kappa})^+ is not the best possible bound. However, in this paper, we will show that it is impossible to find an explicit better bound using ZFC.

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