Betti Number Estimates for Nilpotent Groups

Nilpotent Completions of Groups, Grothendieck Pairs, and Four Problems of Baumslag

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...

Second Cohomology and Nilpotency Class 2

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...

Orders for Which There Exist Exactly Two Groups

Introduction. A long-standing problem in group theory is to determine the number of non-isomorphic groups of a given order. The inverse problem–determining the orders for which there are a given number of groups–has received considerably less attention. In this note, we will give a characterization of those positive integers n for which there exist exactly 2 distinct groups of order n (up to is...

Finite Groups With a Certain Number of Elements Pairwise Generating a Non-Nilpotent Subgroup

Affine Cohomology Classes for Filiform Lie Algebras

We classify the cohomology spaces H(g,K) for all filiform nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension n ≤ 11 over K and for certain classes of algebras of dimension n ≥ 12. The result is applied to the determination of affine cohomology classes [ω] ∈ H(g,K). We prove the general result that the existence of an affine cohomology class implies an affine structure of canonical type on g, hence a canonical...