We give a complete characterization of countable primitive groups in several settings including linear groups, subgroups of mapping class groups, groups acting minimally on trees and convergence groups. The latter category includes as a special case Kleinian groups as well as subgroups of word hyperbolic groups. As an application we calculate the Frattini subgroup in many of these settings, oft...

We discuss the computational complexity of several problems concerning subsets of an algebraic structure that generate the structure. We show that the problem of determining whether a given subset X generates an algebra A is P-complete, while determining the size of the smallest generating set is NP-complete. We also consider several questions related to the Frattini subuniverse, Φ(A), of an al...

We give a complete characterization of countable primitive groups in several settings including linear groups, subgroups of mapping class groups, groups acting minimally on trees and convergence groups. The latter category includes as a special case Kleinian groups as well as subgroups of word hyperbolic groups. As an application we calculate the Frattini subgroup in many of these settings, oft...

In this paper we consider Q the class of solvable Lie algebras L with the following property: if A is a subalgebra of L, then Φ(A) ⊆ Φ(L) (where Φ(L) denotes the Frattini subalgebra of L;that is Φ(L) is the intersection of all maximal subalgebras of L). The class Q is shown to contain all solvable Lie algebras whose derived algebra is nilpotent. Necessary conditions are found such that an ideal...

Let G = A ∗H B be the generalized free product of the groups A and B with the amalgamated subgroup H. Also, let λ(G), μ(G), ψ(G), K(G,H), and Tor H represent the lower near Frattini subgroup of G, the upper near Frattini subgroup of G, the near Frattini subgroup of G, the core of H in G, and the torsion subgroup of H, respectively. Since 1990 a series of papers have been published by the author...

In this paper we study the finite dimensional Lie p-algebras, L splitting on its abelian p-socle, the sum of its minimal abelian p-ideals. In addition, some properties of the Frattini p-subalgebra of L are pointed

Let L be a commutative Moufang loop (CML) with multiplication group M, and let F(L), F(M) be the Frattini subgroup and Frattini subgroup of L and M respectively. It is proved that F(L) = L if and only if F(M) = M and is described the structure of this CLM. Constructively it is defined the notion of normalizer for subloops in CML. Using this it is proved that if F(L) 6= L then L satisfies the no...

We join Hurwitz space constructions and the universal Frattini cover of a nite group The goal is to form and apply generalizations of the towers X p X p X p of modular curves This generalization relies on the appearance of the dihedral group Dp and its companion group Zp f g in the theory of modular curves We replace Dp by any nite group G and p by any prime dividing the order of G The replacem...