NILPOTENT AND LOCALLY FINITE MAXIMAL SUBGROUPS OF SKEW LINEAR GROUPS

Let D be a division ring and N be a subnormal subgroup of D*. In this paper we prove that if M is a nilpotent maximal subgroup of N, then M' is abelian. If, furthermore every element of M is algebraic over Z(D) and M' not subset of F* or M/Z(M) or M' is finitely generated, then M is abelian. The second main result of this paper concerns the subgroups of matrix groups; assume D is a noncommutative division ring, n is a natural number, N is a subnormal subgroup of GL(n)(D), and M is a maximal subgroup of N. We show that if M is locally finite over Z(D)*, then M is either absolutely irreducible or abelian.