A note on Engel elements in the first Grigorchuk group
Group Theory
2018-02-27 v1
Abstract
Let be the first Grigorchuk group. According to a result of Bartholdi, the only left Engel elements of are the involutions. This implies that the set of left Engel elements of is not a subgroup. Of particular interest is to wonder whether this happens also for the sets of bounded left Engel elements, right Engel elements, and bounded right Engel elements of . Motivated by this, we prove that these three subsets of coincide with the identity subgroup.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.09032,
title = {A note on Engel elements in the first Grigorchuk group},
author = {Marialaura Noce and Antonio Tortora},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09032},
year = {2018}
}