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Non-virtually nilpotent groups have infinite conjugacy class quotients

Group Theory 2018-03-15 v1

Abstract

We offer in this note a self-contained proof of the fact that a finitely generated group is not virtually nilpotent if and only if it has a quotient with the infinite conjugacy class (ICC) propoerty. This proof is a modern presentation of the original proof, by McLain (1956) and Duguid and McLain (1956).

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@article{arxiv.1803.05064,
  title  = {Non-virtually nilpotent groups have infinite conjugacy class quotients},
  author = {Joshua Frisch and Pooya Vahidi Ferdowsi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05064},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages

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