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An example of a torsion-free nilpotent group having no outer automorphisms

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A negative answer is given to a question posed by E. Schenkman and F. Haimo: does every torsion-free nilpotent group have an outer automorphism?

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, USSR

    A. E. Zalesskii

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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 21–26, January, 1972.

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Zalesskii, A.E. An example of a torsion-free nilpotent group having no outer automorphisms. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 11, 16–19 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01366910

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