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...

We shall say that an automorphism a is nilpotent or acts nilpotently on a group G if in the holomorph H= [G](a) of G with a, a is a bounded left Engel element, that is, [H, ¿a] = l for some natural number ¿. Here [H, ka] means [H, (k — l)a] with [H, Oa] denoting H. Let G' denote the commutator subgroup [G, G], and let $(G) denote the Frattini subgroup of G. If a is an automorphism of a nilpoten...

Let G be a classical group and let g be its Lie algebra. For a nilpotent element X E g, the ring R(Ox) of regular functions on the nilpotent orbit Ox is a Gmodule. In this thesis, we will decompose it into irreducible representations of G for some spherical nilpotent orbits. Thesis Supervisor: David Alexander Vogan Title: Professor of Mathematics

We study the word length entropy of automorphisms of residually nilpotent groups, and how the entropy of such group automorphisms relates to the entropy of induced automorphisms on various nilpotent quotients. We show that much like the structure of a nilpotent group is dictated to a large degree by its abelianization, the entropy of an automorphism of a nilpotent group is dictated by its entro...

Fix a field F. A zero-nonzero pattern A is said to be potentially nilpotent over F if there exists a matrix with entries in F with zero-nonzero pattern A that allows nilpotence. In this paper an investigation is initiated into which zero-nonzero patterns are potentially nilpotent over F with a special emphasis on the case that F = Zp is a finite field. A necessary condition on F is observed for...

We prove that every ω-categorical, generically stable group is nilpotent-byfinite and that every ω-categorical, generically stable ring is nilpotent-by-finite.

We describe all central extensions of $3$-dimensional non-zero complex Zinbiel algebras. As a corollary, we have full classification $4$-dimensional non-trivial algebras and $5$-dimensional with $2$-dimensional annihilator, which gives the principal step in algebraic

‎Let $L$ be a Lie algebra‎, ‎$mathrm{Der}(L)$ be the set of all derivations of $L$ and $mathrm{Der}_c(L)$ denote the set of all derivations $alphainmathrm{Der}(L)$ for which $alpha(x)in [x,L]:={[x,y]vert yin L}$ for all $xin L$‎. ‎We obtain an upper bound for dimension of $mathrm{Der}_c(L)$ of the finite dimensional nilpotent Lie algebra $L$ over algebraically closed fields‎. ‎Also‎, ‎we classi...