Converse of a Theorem of Mal'cev on Nilpotent Groups.
All crossed products of two cyclic groups are explicitly described using generators and relations. A necessary and sufficient condition for an extension of a group by a group to be a cyclic group is given.
Let and be two groups of finite order , and suppose that they share a normal subgroup such that if or . Cases when is cyclic or dihedral and when for exactly pairs have been shown to be of crucial importance when studying pairs of 2-groups with the latter property. In such cases one can describe two general constructions how to get all possible from a given . The constructions, denoted by and , respectively, depend on a coset (or two cosets and ) modulo , and on an...
Let G be a finite group, and (p ≥ 3). It is proved that G ≅ M if G and M have the same order components.
Let with and let be the corresponding hyperbolic triangle group. Many papers have been dedicated to the following question: what are the finite (simple) groups which appear as quotients of ? (Classically, for and more recently also for general .) These papers have used either explicit constructive methods or probabilistic ones. The goal of this paper is to present a new approach based on the theory of representation varieties (via deformation theory). As a corollary we essentially prove...