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Residually nilpotent one-relator groups with nontrivial centre

Author(s): James McCarron
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 1-5.
MSC (1991): Primary 20E26, 20F05, 20F19
MathSciNet review: 1301037
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Abstract: We determine explicitly the residually nilpotent one-relator groups with nontrivial centre. We show also that, if $G$ is a one-relator group, then $G$ is residually nilpotent if, and only if, its central quotient $G/Z(G)$ is residually nilpotent.

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James McCarron
Affiliation: Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, West Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Email: jmccarron@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03148-6
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03148-6
Keywords: Residually nilpotent, residually $p$-finite, one-relator group, compact
Received by editor(s): May 5, 1994
Additional Notes: The contents of this note form a part of the author's Ph.D. thesis. It is a pleasure to thank my supervisor, F. C. Y. Tang, for his help and guidance
Communicated by: Ronald Solomon
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society

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