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On Metanilpotent Varieties of Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Narain Gupta
Narain Gupta*
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Let denote the variety of all groups which are extensions of a nilpotent-of-class-c group by a nilpotent-of-class-d group, and let denote the variety of all metabelian groups. The main result of this paper is the following theorem.

THEOREM. Let be a subvariety of which does not contain . Then every -group is an extension of a group of finite exponent by a nilpotent group by a group of finite exponent. In particular, a finitely generated torsion-free -group is a nilpotent-by-finite group.

This generalizes the main theorem of Ŝmel′kin [4], where the same result is proved for subvarieties of , where is the variety of abelian groups. See also Lewin and Lewin [2] for a related discussion.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1970 , pp. 875 - 877
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

References

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