NORMAL AUTOMORPHISMS OF A FREE METABELIAN NILPOTENT GROUP

Metabelian Product of a Free Nilpotent Group with a Free Abelian Group

In the variety of all groups, A. I. Mal’cev [5] proved in 1949 that the free product of two residually torsion-free nilpotent groups is again residually torsion-free nilpotent. This paper is motivated by the analogous question in the variety of metabelian groups: can we determine whether free metabelian products of residually torsion-free nilpotent metabelian groups are residually torsion-free ...

Normal Forms for Basis-Conjugating Automorphisms of a Free Group

Automorphisms Fixing Every Normal Subgroup of a Nilpotent-by-abelian Group

Among other things, we prove that the group of automorphisms fixing every normal subgroup of a (nilpotent of class c)-by-abelian group is (nilpotent of class ≤ c)-by-metabelian. In particular, the group of automorphisms fixing every normal subgroup of a metabelian group is soluble of derived length at most 3. An example shows that this bound cannot be improved.

A Note on Automorphisms of Free Nilpotent Groups

We exhibit normal subgroups of a free nilpotent group F of rank two and class three, which have isomorphic finite quotients but are not conjugate under any automorphism of F . A remarkable fact about free profinite groups of finite rank is that any isomorphism between finite quotients of such a group F lifts to an automorphism of F . This is true, more generally, if F a free pro-Cgroup of finit...

Fixed Points of Endomorphisms of a Free Metabelian Group

We consider IA-endomorphisms (i.e. Identical in Abelianization) of a free metabelian group of finite rank, and give a matrix characterization of their fixed points which is similar to (yet different from) the well-known characterization of eigenvectors of a linear operator in a vector space. We then use our matrix characterization to elaborate several properties of the fixed point groups of met...