In 1934, Garrett Birkhoff has shown that the number of isomorphism classes of finite metabelian groups of order p 22 tends to infinity with p. More precisely, for each prime number p there is a family (M λ) λ=0,... ,p−1 of indecom-posable and pairwise nonisomorphic metabelian p-groups of the given order. In this manuscript we use recent results on the classification of possible embeddings of a ...

For any knot, the following are equivalent. (1) The infinite cyclic cover has uncountably many finite covers; (2) there exists a finite-image representation of the knot group for which the twisted Alexander polynomial vanishes; (3) the knot group admits a finite-image representation such that the image of the fundamental group of an incompressible Seifert surface is a proper subgroup of the ima...

‎Let $G$ be a finite group‎. ‎An element $gin G$ is called non-vanishing‎, ‎if for‎ ‎every irreducible complex character $chi$ of $G$‎, ‎$chi(g)neq 0$‎. ‎The bi-Cayley graph ${rm BCay}(G,T)$ of $G$ with respect to a subset $Tsubseteq G$‎, ‎is an undirected graph with‎ ‎vertex set $Gtimes{1,2}$ and edge set ${{(x,1),(tx,2)}mid xin G‎, ‎ tin T}$‎. ‎Let ${rm nv}(G)$ be the set‎ ‎of all non-vanishi...

We show that if $w$ is a multilinear commutator word and $G$ finite group in which every metanilpotent subgroup generated by $w$-values of rank at most $r$, then the verbal $w(G)$ bounded terms $r$ only. In case where soluble we obtain better result -- nilpotent $r+1$.

We introduce the (general) homotopy groups of spheres as link invariants for Brunnian-type links through the investigations on the intersection subgroup of the normal closures of the meridians of strongly nonsplittable links. The homotopy groups measure the difference between the intersection subgroup and symmetric commutator subgroup of the normal closures of the meridians and give the invaria...

Introduction In the theory of groups, the important concepts of Abelian group, solvable group, nilpotent group, the center of a group and centraliz-ers, are all defined from the binary operation [x, y] = x −1 y −1 xy. Each of these notions, except centralizers of elements, may also be defined in terms of the commutator of normal subgroups. The commutator [M, N] (where M and N are normal subgrou...