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Groups in which every subgroup is modular-by-finite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

M. De Falco
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Napoli “Federico0 II”, Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia I 80126, Napoli, Italy
F. De Giovanni
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Napoli “Federico0 II”, Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia I 80126, Napoli, Italy
C. Musella
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Napoli “Federico0 II”, Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia I 80126, Napoli, Italy
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A group G is called a BCF-group if there is a positive integer κ such that |X : XG| ≤ κ for each subgroup X of G. The structure of BCF-groups has been studied by Buckley, Lennox, Neumann, Smith and Wiegold; they proved in particular that locally finite groups with the property BCF are Abelian-by-finite. As a group lattice version of this concept, we say that a group G is a BMF-group if there is a positive integer κ such that every subgroup X of G contains a modular subgroup Y of G for which the index |X : Y| is finite and the number of its prime divisors with multiplicity is bounded by κ (it is known that that such number can be characterised by purely lattice-theoretic considerations, and so it is invariant under lattice isomorphisms of groups). It is proved here that any locally finite BMF-group contains a subgroup of finite index with modular subgroup lattice.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2004

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