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.