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...

On the Automorphism Tower of Free Nilpotent Groups Martin Dimitrov Kassabov 2003 In this thesis I study the automorphism tower of free nilpo-tent groups. Our main tool in studying the automorphism tower is to embed every group as a lattice in some Lie group. Using known rigidity results the automorphism group of the discrete group can be embedded into the automorphism group of the Lie group. Th...

We construct examples of two-step and three-step nilpotent Lie groups whose automorphism groups are “small” in the sense of either not having a dense orbit for the action on the Lie group, or being nilpotent (the latter being stronger). From the results we also get new examples of compact manifolds covered by two-step simply connected nilpotent Lie groups which do not admit Anosov automorphisms...

Let C be a class of groups, closed under taking subgroups and quotients. We prove that if all metabelian groups of C are torsion-by-nilpotent, then all soluble groups of C are torsion-by-nilpotent. From that, we deduce the following consequence, similar to a well-known result of P. Hall: if H is a normal subgroup of a group G such that H and G/H ′ are (locally finite)-by-nilpotent, then G is (l...

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...

A finite group G is said to have the nilpotent decomposition property (ND) if for every element α of integral ring Z[G] one has that αe also belong Z[G], primitive central idempotent e rational algebra Q[G]. Results Hales, Passi and Wilson, Liu Passman show this fundamental in investigations multiplicative Jordan rings. If all its subgroups ND then showed SSN, is, H, Y N G, N◁H Y⊆H N⊆Y or YN no...

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...