A group is called capable if it is a central factor group. We consider the capability of nilpotent products of cyclic groups, and obtain a generalisation of a theorem of Baer for the small class case. The approach may also be used to obtain some recent results on the capability of certain nilpotent groups of class 2. We also obtain a necessary condition for the capability of an arbitrary p-grou...

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 ...

We prove that the theory of the p-adics Qp, together with a set of explicitly given sorts, admits elimination of imaginaries. Using p-adic integration, we deduce the rationality of certain formal zeta functions arising from definable equivalence relations. As an application, we prove rationality results for zeta functions obtained by counting isomorphism classes of irreducible representations o...

In this paper a large family of dominant Fitting classes of finite soluble groups and the description of the corresponding injectors are obtained. Classical constructions of nilpotent and Lockett injectors as well as p-nilpotent injectors arise as particular cases. 1994 Mathematics subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc.): primary 20D10.

We give a necessary condition to reduce the Cayley isomorphism problem for Cayley objects of a nilpotent or abelian group G whose order satisfies certain arithmetic properties to the Cayley isomorphism problem of Cayley objects of the Sylow subgroups of G in the case of nilpotent groups, and in the case of abelian groups to certain natural subgroups. As an application of this result, we show th...

We generalize a result of Tao which describes approximate multiplicative groups in the Heisenberg group. We extend it to simply connected nilpotent Lie groups of arbitrary step.