Abstract We prove the existence of a limiting distribution for appropriately rescaled diameters random undirected Cayley graphs finite nilpotent groups bounded rank and nilpotency class, thus extending result Shapira Zuck which dealt with case abelian groups. The is defined on space unimodular lattices, as in Our result, when specialised to certain family unitriangular groups, establishes very ...

In this paper we find upper bounds for the nilpotency degree of some ideals in the cohomology ring of a finite group by studying fixed point free actions of the group on suitable spaces. The ideals we study are the kernels of restriction maps to certain collections of proper subgroups. We recover the Quillen-Venkov lemma and the Quillen F-injectivity theorem as corollaries, and discuss some gen...

One of the fundamental questions in current field theory, related to Grothendieck’s conjecture of birational anabelian geometry, is the investigation of the precise relationship between the Galois theory of fields and the structure of the fields themselves. In this paper we initiate the classification of additive properties of multiplicative subgroups of fields containing all squares, using pro...

One of the fundamental questions in current field theory, related to Grothendieck’s conjecture of birational anabelian geometry, is the investigation of the precise relationship between the Galois theory of fields and the structure of the fields themselves. In this paper we initiate the classification of additive properties of multiplicative subgroups of fields containing all squares, using pro...

The regularization scheme is proposed for the constrained Hamil-tonian formulation of the gauge fields coupled to the chiral or axial fermions. The Schwinger terms in the regularized operator first-class constraint algebra are shown to be consistent with the covariant divergence anomaly of the corresponding current. Regularized quantum master equations are studied, and the Schwinger terms are f...

In this paper, we continue a study of simplicial commutative algebras with finite André-Quillen homology, that was begun in [19]. Here we restrict our focus to simplicial algebras having characteristic 2. Our aim is to find a generalization of the main theorem in [19]. In particular, we replace the finiteness condition on homotopy with a weaker condition expressed in terms of nilpotency for the...

Nilpotency for discrete groups can be defined in terms of central extensions. In this paper, the analogous definition for spaces is stated in terms of principal fibrations having infinite loop spaces as fibers, yielding a new invariant we compare with classical cocategory, but also with the more recent notion of homotopy nilpotency introduced by Biedermann and Dwyer. This allows us to character...

Let K be a field of positive characteristic p and KG the group algebra of a group G. It is known that, if KG is Lie nilpotent, then its upper (or lower) Lie nilpotency index is at most |G| + 1, where |G| is the order of the commutator subgroup. Previously we determined the groups G for which the upper/lower nilpotency index is maximal or the upper nilpotency index is ‘almost maximal’ (that is, ...