Conditions are given for a class 2 nilpotent group to have no central extensions of class 3. This is related to Betti numbers and to the problem of representing a class 2 nilpotent group as the fundamental group of a smooth projective variety. Surveys of the work on the characterization of the fundamental groups of smooth projective varieties and Kähler manifolds (see [1],[3], [9]) indicate tha...

An automorphism of a group G is called regular if it moves every element of G except the identity. BURNSIDE proved that a finite group G has a regular automorphism of order two if and only if G is an abelian group of odd order, and then the only such automorphism maps every element onto its inverse ([21, p. 230). More recently several authors considered the question: what groups can admit regul...

We give an explicit formula for the local normal zeta functions of torsion-free, class-2-nilpotent groups at primes p where the associated Pfaffian hypersurface has good reduction mod p and contains no lines. We show how together the functional equations of two types of zeta functions the Weil zeta function associated to an algebraic variety and zeta functions of algebraic groups introduced by ...

In this paper we introduce the concept of α-commutator which its definition is based on generalized conjugate classes. With this notion, α-nilpotent groups, α-solvable groups, nilpotency and solvability of groups related to the automorphism are defined. N(G) and S(G) are the set of all nilpotency classes and the set of all solvability classes for the group G with respect to different automorphi...

We announce proofs of a number of theorems concerning finite p-groups and nilpotent groups. These include: (1) the number of p-groups of class c on d generators of order pn satisfies a linear recurrence relation in n; (2) for fixed n the number of p-groups of order pn as one varies p is given by counting points on certain varieties mod p; (3) an asymptotic formula for the number of finite nilpo...

Scmicomplctc nilpotcnt groups, that is, nilpotent groups with no outer automorphisms, have been of interest for many years. In this paper pscudocomplete nilpotent groups, that is, nilpotent groups in which the automorphism group and the inner automorphism group arc isomorphic (not equal), are constructed. When suitable conditions are placed on the pseudocomplete nilpotent group, the quotient of...

This article examines aspects of the theory of locally nilpotent linear groups. We also present a new classification result for locally nilpotent linear groups over an arbitrary field F. 1. Why Locally Nilpotent Linear Groups? Linear (matrix) groups are a commonly used concrete representation of groups. The first investigations of linear groups were undertaken in the second half of the 19th cen...

Suppose K is a finite field extension of Qp containing a primitive p-th root of unity. Let ΓK(1) be the Galois group of a maximal p-extension of K with the Galois group of period p and nilpotent class < p. In the paper we describe the ramification filtration {ΓK(1)}v>0 and relate it to an explicit form of the Demushkin relation for ΓK(1). The results are given in terms of Lie algebras attached ...