Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society

Research Article

Modules over infinite nilpotent groups

J. R. J. Grovesa1

a1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia e-mail: j.groves@ms.unimelb.edu.au

Abstract

The paper discusses modules over free nilpotent groups and demonstrates that faithful modules are more restricted than might appear at first glance. Some discussion is also made of applying the techniques more generally.

(Received January 08 2001)

2000 Mathematics subject classification

  • primary 20F18;
  • l20F18