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Fitting quotients of finitely presented abelian-by-nilpotent groups

Group Theory 2014-11-12 v2

Abstract

We show that every finitely generated nilpotent group of class 2 occurs as the quotient of a finitely presented abelian-by-nilpotent group by its largest nilpotent normal subgroup.

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@article{arxiv.1112.0367,
  title  = {Fitting quotients of finitely presented abelian-by-nilpotent groups},
  author = {J. R. J. Groves and Ralph Strebel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.0367},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

This second version takes into account the suggestions by the referee; 11 pages