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Basic p-groups: higher commutator structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Paul M. Weichsel
Paul M. Weichsel
Affiliation:
University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois, U. S. A.
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The classification of groups according to the varieties they generate requires the study of a class of indecomposable elements. Such a class is the class of basic groups which have been studied in [4], [5] and [6]. A group is called basic if it is indecomposable qua group; that is, it is critical and indecomposable qua variety; that is, its variety is join-irreducible. In this note we consider the higher commutator structure of basic p-groups. Our main theme is the relation between the formal weight of the higher commutator subgroups and the class of the group. We obtain information about the power-commutator structure of a basic p-group, the kinds of laws that can hold in such a group and the varietal structure of groups of the form: Center-extended-by-X.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1973 , pp. 200 - 206
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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