A geometric approach to the almost convexity and growth of some nilpotent groups.
Let be a group. If every nontrivial subgroup of has a proper supplement, then is called an -group. We study some properties of -groups. For instance, it is shown that a nilpotent group is an -group if and only if is a subdirect product of cyclic groups of prime orders. We prove that if is an -group which satisfies the descending chain condition on subgroups, then is finite. Among other results, we characterize all abelian groups for which every nontrivial quotient group is an -group....
The Mislin genus G(N) of a finitely generated nilpotent group N with finite commutator subgroup admits an abelian group structure. If N satisfies some additional conditions -we say that N belongs to N1- we know exactly the structure of G(N). Considering a direct product N1 x ... x Nk of groups in N1 takes us virtually always out of N1. We here calculate the Mislin genus of such a direct product.