On quasivarieties of axiomatic rank 3 of torsion-free nilpotent groups

Abstract

We study the lattice of quasivarieties of axiomatic rank at most 3 of torsion-free nilpotent groups of class at most 3. We prove that this lattice has cardinality of the continuum and includes a sublattice that is order isomorphic to the set of real numbers. Also we establish that the lattice of quasivarieties of axiomatic rank at most 2 of these groups is a 5-element chain.