6.36 (1978)
Solved(J. W. Grossman). The nilpotent-completion diagram of a group $G$ is as follows: $G/\gamma_1G \leftarrow G/\gamma_2G \leftarrow \dots$, where $\gamma_iG$ is the $i$th term of the lower central series and the arrows are natural homomorphisms. It is easy to see that every nilpotent-completion diagram $G_1 \leftarrow G_2 \leftarrow \dots$ is a $\gamma$-diagram, that is, every sequence $1 \to \gamma_s G_{s+1} \to G_{s+1} \to G_s \to 1$, $s = 1, 2, \dots$, is exact. Do $\gamma$-diagrams exist that are not nilpotent-completion diagrams?
Progress
Yes, such $\gamma$-diagrams exist (N. S. RomanovskiÄ, Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 26, no. 4 (1985), 194–195 (Russian)).
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