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AXIOMATISABILITY OF THE CLASS OF MONOLITHIC GROUPS IN A VARIETY OF NILPOTENT GROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

JOSHUA T. GRICE*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC29208, USA email jtgrice@math.sc.edu

Abstract

The class of all monolithic (that is, subdirectly irreducible) groups belonging to a variety generated by a finite nilpotent group can be axiomatised by a finite set of elementary sentences.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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