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LetX be a finitep-torsion based connected nilpotent CW-complex. We give a criterion of a subgroup of ε(X), the group of self equivalences ofX, to be a nilpotent group, in terms of its action onE *(X), whereE is a CW-spectrum, satisfying some technical conditions.
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Xu, K. Nilpotent subgroups of self equivalences of torsion spaces. Israel J. Math. 93, 189–194 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02761102
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