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Compact groups in which all elements have countable right Engel sinks

Group Theory 2023-06-22 v1

Abstract

A right Engel sink of an element gg of a group GG is a set R(g){\mathscr R}(g) such that for every xGx\in G all sufficiently long commutators [...[[g,x],x],,x][...[[g,x],x],\dots ,x] belong to R(g){\mathscr R}(g). (Thus, gg is a right Engel element precisely when we can choose R(g)={1}{\mathscr R}(g)=\{ 1\}.) It is proved that if every element of a compact (Hausdorff) group GG has a countable (or finite) right Engel sink, then GG has a finite normal subgroup NN such that G/NG/N is locally nilpotent.

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@article{arxiv.2004.11680,
  title  = {Compact groups in which all elements have countable right Engel sinks},
  author = {E. I. Khukhro and P. Shumyatsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11680},
  year   = {2023}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.11637

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