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Commutativity preserving extensions of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2017

Urban Jezernik
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics, Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia (urban.jezernik@imfm.si)
Primož Moravec
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 21, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia (primoz.moravec@fmf.uni-lj.si)

Abstract

In parallel to the classical theory of central extensions of groups, we develop a version for extensions that preserve commutativity. It is shown that the Bogomolov multiplier is a universal object parametrizing such extensions of a given group. Maximal and minimal extensions are inspected, and a connection with commuting probability is explored. Such considerations produce bounds for the exponent and rank of the Bogomolov multiplier.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2018 

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