A group is said to be a PC-group, if is a polycyclic-by-finite group for all . A minimal non-PC-group is a group which is not a PC-group but all of whose proper subgroups are PC-groups. Our main result is that a minimal non-PC-group having a non-trivial finite factor group is a finite cyclic extension of a divisible abelian group of finite rank.
The current article considers some infinite groups whose finitely generated subgroups are either permutable or pronormal. A group is called a generalized radical, if has an ascending series whose factors are locally nilpotent or locally finite. The class of locally generalized radical groups is quite wide. For instance, it includes all locally finite, locally soluble, and almost locally soluble groups. The main result of this paper is the followingTheorem. Let be a locally generalized radical...
New results on tight connections among pronormal, abnormal and contranormal subgroups of a group have been established. In particular, new characteristics of pronormal and abnormal subgroups have been obtained.
Let G* denote a nonprincipal ultrapower of a group G. In 1986 M.~Boffa posed a question equivalent to the following one: if G does not satisfy a positive law, does G* contain a free nonabelian subsemigroup? We give the affirmative answer to this question in the large class of groups containing all residually finite and all soluble groups, in fact, all groups considered in traditional textbooks on group theory.
A modular analogue of the well-known group theoretical result about finiteness of the derived subgroup in a group with a finite factor by its center has been obtained.
The aim is to investigate the behaviour of (homomorphic images of) periodic linear groups which are factorized by mutually permutable subgroups. Mutually permutable subgroups have been extensively investigated in the finite case by several authors, among which, for our purposes, we only cite J. C. Beidleman and H. Heineken (2005). In a previous paper of ours (see M. Ferrara, M. Trombetti (2022)) we have been able to generalize the first main result of J. C. Beidleman, H. Heineken (2005) to periodic...
This article is dedicated to some criteria of generalized nilpotency involving pronormality and abnormality. Also new results on groups, in which abnormality is a transitive relation, have been obtained.