a longstanding conjecture asserts that every finite nonabelian $p$-group admits a noninner automorphism of order $p$‎. ‎let $g$ be a finite nonabelian $p$-group‎. ‎it is known that if $g$ is regular or of nilpotency class $2$ or the commutator subgroup of $g$ is cyclic‎, ‎or $g/z(g)$ is powerful‎, ‎then $g$ has a noninner automorphism of order $p$ leaving either the center $z(g)$ or the frattin...

Introduction. The group A (G) of all continuous and open automorphisms of a locally compact topological group G may be regarded as a topological group, the topology being defined in the usual fashion from the compact and the open subsets of G (see §1). In general, this topological structure of A(G) is somewhat pathological. For instance, if G is the discretely topologized additive group of an i...

We use extensions to study the semi-simple quotient of the group ring FpAut(P ) of a finite p-group P . For an extension E : N → P → Q, our results involve relations between Aut(N), Aut(P ), Aut(Q) and the extension class [E] ∈ H(Q,ZN). One novel feature is the use of the intersection orbit group Ω([E]), defined as the intersection of the orbits Aut(N) · [E] and Aut(Q) · [E] in H(Q,ZN). This gr...

On the Automorphism Tower of Free Nilpotent Groups Martin Dimitrov Kassabov 2003 In this thesis I study the automorphism tower of free nilpo-tent groups. Our main tool in studying the automorphism tower is to embed every group as a lattice in some Lie group. Using known rigidity results the automorphism group of the discrete group can be embedded into the automorphism group of the Lie group. Th...