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Title: | The lattice of normal subgroups of an infinite group | ||||||
Author: | Behrendt, Gerhard Karl |
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0000 0001 3454 0265
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Awarding Body: | University of Oxford | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Oxford | ||||||
Date of Award: | 1981 | ||||||
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This thesis deals with various problems about the normal and subnormal structure of infinite groups. We first consider the relationship between the number of normal subgroups of a group G and of a subgroup H of finite index in G. We prove Theorem 1.5 There exists a finitely generated group G which has a subgroup H of index 2 such that H has continuously many normal subgroups and G has only countably many normal subgroups. Proposition 1.7 Let k be an infinite cardinal. Then there exists a group G of cardinality k that has only 12 normal subgroups but which contains a subgroup H of index 2 having k normal subgroups. We then consider partially ordered sets and investigate the subnormal structure of generalized wreath products. We deal with the question whether the number of subnormal subgroups of an infinite group is determined by the number of its n-step subnormal subgroups for an integer n. We prove Theorem 5.3 Let G be a group. Then G has finitely many subnormal subgroups if and only if it has finitely many 2-step subnormal subgroups. Theorem 5.5 Let m and n be infinite cardinals such that m ≤ n. Then there exists a group G with the following properties: (1) The cardinality of G is n. (2) The number of normal subgroups of G is
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Supervisor: | Neumann, P. M. | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.237957 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | Infinite groups ; Group theory | ||||||
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