If G is a group with supersimple theory having finite SU -rank, the subgroup of G generated by all of its normal nilpotent subgroups is definable and nilpotent. This answers a question asked by Elwes, Jaligot, Macpherson and Ryten in [5]. If H is any group with supersimple theory, the subgroup of H generated by all of its normal soluble subgroups is definable and soluble.

A finite non-abelian group G is called metahamiltonian if every subgroup of either abelian or normal in G. If non-nilpotent, then the structure has been determined. nilpotent, determined by its Sylow subgroups. However, classification p-groups an unsolved problem. In this paper, are completely classified up to isomorphism.

Gromov conjectured that the fundamental group of a manifold with almost nonnegative Ricci curvature is almost nilpotent. This conjecture is proved under the additional assumption on the conjugate radius. We show that there exists a nilpotent subgroup of finite index depending on a lower bound of the conjugate radius.

Hedlund [He] constructed Riemannian metrics on n-tori, n ≥ 3 for which minimal geodesics are very rare. In this paper we construct similar examples for every nilpotent fundamental group. These examples show that Bangert’s existence results of minimal geodesics [Ba2] are optimal for nilpotent fundamental groups.

We provide an explicit bijection between the ad-nilpotent ideals of a Borel subalgebra of a simple Lie algebra g and the orbits of Q̌/(h + 1)Q̌ under the Weyl group (Q̌ being the coroot lattice and h the Coxeter number of g). From this result we deduce in a uniform way a counting formula for the ad-nilpotent ideals.

A generalized Baumslag-Solitar group (GBS group) is a finitely generated group G which acts on a tree with all edge and vertex stabilizers infinite cyclic. We show that Out(G) either contains non-abelian free groups or is virtually nilpotent of class ≤ 2. It has torsion only at finitely many primes. One may decide algorithmically whether Out(G) is virtually nilpotent or not. If it is, one may d...

Let G be an adjoint algebraic group of type B, C, or D over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 2. We construct a Springer correspondence for the Lie algebra of G. In particular, for orthogonal Lie algebras in characteristic 2, the structure of component groups of nilpotent centralizers is determined and the number of nilpotent orbits over finite fields is obtained.

For any non-torsion group G with identity e, we construct a strongly G-graded ring R such that the Jacobson radical J(Re) is locally nilpotent, but J(R) is not locally nilpotent. This answers a question posed by Puczy lowski.

Recently Havas and Vaughan-Lee proved that 4-Engel groups are locally nilpotent. Their proof relies on the fact that a certain 4-Engel group T is nilpotent and this they prove using a computer and the Knuth-Bendix algorithm. In this paper we give a short hand-proof of the nilpotency of T .

In two recent papers with Krzysztof Krupi´nski, we proved that every ω-categorical, generically stable group is nilpotent-by-finite and that every ω-categorical, generically stable ring is nilpotent-by-finite. During the lecture, after a brief overview of well-known results on ω-categorical groups and rings, I will explain the main ideas of the proofs of our results.