In this paper we study the structure of locally solvable, solvable, locally nilpotent, and nilpotent maximal subgroups of skew linear groups. In [S. Akbari et al., J. Algebra 217 (1999) 422–433] it has been conjectured that if D is a division ring and M a nilpotent maximal subgroup of D∗, then D is commutative. In connection with this conjecture we show that if F [M]\F contains an algebraic ele...

‎In 1970‎, ‎Menegazzo [Gruppi nei quali ogni sottogruppo e intersezione di sottogruppi massimali‎, ‎ Atti Accad‎. ‎Naz‎. ‎Lincei Rend‎. ‎Cl‎. ‎Sci‎. ‎Fis‎. ‎Mat‎. ‎Natur. 48 (1970)‎, ‎559--562.] gave a complete description of the structure of soluble $IM$-groups‎, ‎i.e.‎, ‎groups in which every subgroup can be obtained as intersection of maximal subgroups‎. ‎A group $G$ is said to have the $FM$...

In this paper we study groups generated by a set X with the property that every two elements in X generate a nilpotent subgroup.

We describe a nilpotent quotient algorithm for a certain type of infinite presentations: the so-called finite L-presentations. We then exhibit finite L-presentations for various interesting groups and report on the application of our nilpotent quotient algorithm to them. As result, we obtain conjectural descriptions of the lower central series structure of various interesting groups including t...

Let c ≥ 0, d ≥ 2 be integers and N (d) c be the variety of groups in which every dgenerator subgroup is nilpotent of class at most c. N.D. Gupta posed this question that for what values of c and d it is true that N (d) c is locally nilpotent? We prove that if c ≤ 2 d + 2 − 3 then the variety N (d) c is locally nilpotent and we reduce the question of Gupta about the periodic groups in N (d) c to...

We prove that a finite group with nilpotent subgroup H and H-connected transversals is solvable. The proof depends on the classification of finite simple groups.

We study the word length entropy of automorphisms of residually nilpotent groups, and how the entropy of such group automorphisms relates to the entropy of induced automorphisms on various nilpotent quotients. We show that much like the structure of a nilpotent group is dictated to a large degree by its abelianization, the entropy of an automorphism of a nilpotent group is dictated by its entro...

We consider a reductive dual pair (G,G′) in the stable range with G′ the smaller member and of Hermitian symmetric type. We study the theta lifting of nilpotent K ′ C-orbits, where K ′ is a maximal compact subgroup of G′ and we describe the precise KC-module structure of the regular function ring of the closure of the lifted nilpotent orbit of the symmetric pair (G,K). As an application, we pro...