Solvable quotients of subdirect products of perfect groups are nilpotent

Keith Kearnes; Peter Mayr; Nik Ruskuc

doi:10.1112/blms.12196

Solvable quotients of subdirect products of perfect groups are nilpotent

Keith Kearnes, Peter Mayr, Nik Ruskuc

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Abstract

We prove the statement in the title and exhibit examples of quotients of arbitrary nilpotency class. This answers a question by Holt.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1016-1026
Number of pages	11
Journal	Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Volume	50
Issue number	6
Early online date	9 Aug 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.12196
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018

Keywords

Subdirect product
Subgroup
Perfect group
Nilpotent

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- School of Mathematics and Statistics - Director of Research
- Pure Mathematics - Professor
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra
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