Some Criteria for Existence of Supplements to Normal Subgroups and Their Applications

Abstract

We established several new criteria for existence of complements and supplements to some normal abelian subgroups in groups. In passing, as one of the many useful applications and corollaries of these results, we obtained a description of some finitely generated soluble groups of finite Hirsch–Zaitsev rank. As another application of our results, we obtained a D.J.S. Robinson's theorem on structure of finitely generated soluble groups of finite section rank. The original proof of this theorem was homological, but all proofs in this paper, including this one, are purely group-theoretical.