Weak maximality condition and polycyclic groups
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Abstract:
A group G is called strongly restrained if there exists an integer n such that $\langle {x^{(y)}}\rangle$ can be generated by n elements for all x, y in G. We show that a group G is polycyclic-by-finite if and only if G is a finitely generated strongly restrained group in which every nontrivial finitely generated subgroup has a nontrivial finite quotient. This provides a general setting for various results in soluble and residually finite groups that have appeared recently.References
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- © Copyright 1995 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 711-714
- MSC: Primary 20F16; Secondary 06F15, 20E26, 20F60
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1285998-2
- MathSciNet review: 1285998