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Embedding group amalgams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Patrick Fitzpatrick
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College, Cork, Ireland;
James Wiegold
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University College, PO Box 78, Cardiff CFI IXL, Wales.
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Abstract

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A class of groups is said to have the small embedding property if every amalgam of two groups from amalgamating a normal subgroup embeds into a group not generating the variety of all groups. Very few large classes have the small embedding property. For example, the minimal non-abelian varieties containing non-abelian finite groups do not; neither does any class of groups containing ; but the set of finitely generated groups in a nilpotent variety not containing does have the small embedding property.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1981

References

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