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Finitely Generated Metabelian Groups

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Among the results presented here are: There are only countably many isomorphism classes of finitely generated metabelian groups; Finitely generated metabelian groups satisfy the maximal condition for normal subgroups (a result by P. Hall).

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© 2013 Katalin A. Bencsath, Marianna C. Bonanome, Margaret H. Dean, Marcos Zyman

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Bencsáth, K.A., Bonanome, M.C., Dean, M.H., Zyman, M. (2013). Finitely Generated Metabelian Groups. In: Lectures on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5450-2_6

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