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Bounded Engel elements in residually finite groups

Group Theory 2020-03-16 v1

Abstract

Let qq be a prime. Let GG be a residually finite group satisfying an identity. Suppose that for every xGx \in G there exists a qq-power m=m(x)m=m(x) such that the element xmx^m is a bounded Engel element. We prove that GG is locally virtually nilpotent. Further, let d,nd,n be positive integers and ww a non-commutator word. Assume that GG is a dd-generator residually finite group in which all ww-values are nn-Engel. We show that the verbal subgroup w(G)w(G) has {d,n,w}\{d,n,w\}-bounded nilpotency class.

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@article{arxiv.1812.04521,
  title  = {Bounded Engel elements in residually finite groups},
  author = {Raimundo Bastos and Danilo Silveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04521},
  year   = {2020}
}

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9 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.04468

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