Subgroups of the skew general linear group over the division ring of real quaternions

TS Lê Văn Chua

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Let H be the division ring of real quaternions and n a positive integer. In this paper, we show that every subgroup of finite index in the skew general linear group GL(n,H) is non-central normal and so it contains the skew special linear group SL(n,H). Also, we show that every proper subgroup of  SL(n,H) is of infinite index. Besides, we show that every subnormal subgroup of GL(n,H) is a T-group and so it is normal in GL(n,H).

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