On central extensions of simple differential algebraic groups

On Extensions of Simple Modules over Symmetric and Algebraic Groups

On central Frattini extensions of finite groups

An extension of a group A by a group G is thought of here simply as a group H containing A as a normal subgroup with quotient H/A isomorphic to G. It is called a central Frattini extension if A is contained in the intersection of the centre and the Frattini subgroup of H . The result of the paper is that, given a finite abelian A and finite G, there exists a central Frattini extension of A by G...

Algebraic extensions in free groups

The aim of this paper is to unify the points of view of three recent and independent papers (Ventura 1997, Margolis, Sapir and Weil 2001 and Kapovich and Miasnikov 2002), where similar modern versions of a 1951 theorem of Takahasi were given. We develop a theory of algebraic extensions for free groups, highlighting the analogies and differences with respect to the corresponding classical field-...

Embedding Differential Algebraic Groups in Algebraic Groups

Quantifier Elimination We work in K a large rich differentially closed field. All other differential fields are assumed to be small subfields of K. Let L = {+,−, ·, δ, 0, 1} be the language of differential rings. We let L− = {+,−, ·, 0, 1}, the language of rings. If k is a differential field, we can view k either as an L-structure or an L−-structure. Theorem 1.1 (Quantifier Elimination) For any...

Central extensions of p-adic algebraic groups by finite p-groups

Some problems on algebraic groups over global fields like the congruence subgroup problem involve the determination of topological central extensions of the adelic group which, in turn, leads naturally to the study of topological central extensions of p-adic Lie groups by finite groups like the group of roots of unity in the p-adic field. Moreover, central extensions of semisimple p-adic Lie gr...