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 prove that every finitely generated nilpotent group of class c admits a polynomial isoperimetric function of degree c+1 and a linear upper bound on its filling length function. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20F05, 20F32, 57M07

We give methods for bounding the higher-order filling functions of a homogeneous nilpotent group and apply them to a family of quadratically presented groups constructed by S. Chen[9]. We find sharp bounds on some higher-order filling invariants of these groups. In particular, we show that groups with arbitrarily large nilpotency class can have euclidean n-dimensional filling volume and give an...

There are some new developments on Plancherel formula and growth of matrix coefficients for unitary representations of nilpotent Lie groups. These have several consequences for the geometry of weakly symmetric spaces and analysis on parabolic subgroups of real semisimple Lie groups, and to (infinite dimensional) locally nilpotent Lie groups. Many of these consequences are still under developmen...

Applications of hypergroups have mainly appeared in special subclasses. One of the important subclasses is the class of polygroups. In this paper, we study the notions of nilpotent and solvable polygroups by using the notion of heart of polygroups. In particular, we give a necessary and sufficient condition between nilpotent (solvable) polygroups and fundamental groups.

This paper describes an algorithm for computing maximal tori of the reductive centralizer of a nilpotent element of an exceptional complex symmetric space. It illustrates also a good example of the use of Computer Algebra Systems to help answer important questions in the field of pure mathematics. Such tori play a fundamental rôle in several problems such as: classification of nilpotent orbits ...

The notable exclusions from the family of automatic groups are those nilpotent groups which are not virtually abelian, and the fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds based on the Nil or Sol geometries. Of these, the 3-manifold groups have been shown by Bridson and Gilman to lie in a family of groups defined by conditions slightly more general than those of automatic groups, that is, to have ...

We characterize co-Hopfian finitely generated torsion free nilpotent groups in terms of their Lie algebra automorphisms, and construct many examples of such groups.

If a polycyclic-by-finite rank-K group Γ admits a faithful affine representation making it acting on RK properly discontinuously and with compact quotient, we say that Γ admits an affine structure. In 1977, John Milnor questioned the existence of affine structures for such groups Γ. Very recently examples have been obtained showing that, even for torsion-free, finitely generated nilpotent group...