In a recent article [Gi99], V.Ginzburg introduced and studied in depth the notion of a principal nilpotent pair in a semisimple Lie algebra g. He also obtained several results for more general pairs. As a next step, we considered in [Pa99] almost principal nilpotent pairs. The aim of this paper is to make a contribution to the general theory of nilpotent pairs. Roughly speaking, a nilpotent pai...

‎In the classical group theory there is‎ an open question‎: ‎Is every torsion free n-Engel group (for n ≥ 4)‎, nilpotent?‎. ‎To answer the question‎, ‎Traustason‎ [11] showed that with some additional conditions all‎ ‎4-Engel groups are locally nilpotent‎. ‎Here‎, ‎we gave some partial‎ answer to this question on Engel fuzzy subgroups‎. ‎We show that if μ is a normal 4-Engel fuzzy‎ subgroup of ...

τ(w)(x) = 〈x(w), w〉, w ∈ W, x ∈ g ⊆ End(W ), and similarly for τ ′. Our main theorem describes the behaviour of closures of nilpotent orbits under the action of moment maps. It is easy to see that for a nilpotent coadjoint orbit O ⊆ g∗ the set τ ′(τ−1(O)) is the union of nilpotent coadjoint orbits in g′. It turns out that it is a closure of a single orbit: Theorem 1.1 Let O ⊆ g∗ be a nilpotent ...

Two groups are said to have the same nilpotent genus if they have the same nilpotent quotients. We answer four questions of Baumslag concerning nilpotent completions. (i) There exists a pair of finitely generated, residually torsion-free-nilpotent groups of the same nilpotent genus such that one is finitely presented and the other is not. (ii) There exists a pair of finitely presented, residual...

A zero-nonzero pattern A is said to be potentially nilpotent over a field F if there exists a nilpotent matrix with entries in F having zero-nonzero pattern A. We explore the construction of potentially nilpotent patterns over a field. We present classes of patterns which are potentially nilpotent over a field F if and only if the field F contains certain roots of unity. We then introduce some ...

We show that every finitely generated nilpotent group of class 2 occurs as the quotient of a finitely presented abelian-by-nilpotent group by its largest nilpotent normal subgroup.

In the variety of all groups, A. I. Mal’cev [5] proved in 1949 that the free product of two residually torsion-free nilpotent groups is again residually torsion-free nilpotent. This paper is motivated by the analogous question in the variety of metabelian groups: can we determine whether free metabelian products of residually torsion-free nilpotent metabelian groups are residually torsion-free ...

We consider an open problem on the stability of nonlinear nilpotent switched systems posed by Daniel Liberzon. Partial solutions to this problem were obtained as corollaries of global nice reachability results for nilpotent control systems. The global structure is crucial in establishing stability. We show that nice reachability analysis may be reduced to the reachability analysis of a specific...