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Compact groups in which commutators have finite right Engel sinks

Group Theory 2024-10-10 v1

Abstract

A right Engel sink of an element gg of a group GG is a subset containing all sufficiently long commutators [...[[g,x],x],,x][...[[g,x],x],\dots ,x]. We prove that if GG is a compact group in which, for some kk, every commutator [...[g1,g2],,gk][...[g_1,g_2],\dots ,g_k] has a finite right Engel sink, then GG has a locally nilpotent open subgroup. If in addition, for some positive integer mm, every commutator [...[g1,g2],,gk][...[g_1,g_2],\dots ,g_k] has a right Engel sink of cardinality at most mm, then GG has a locally nilpotent subgroup of finite index bounded in terms of mm only.

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@article{arxiv.2410.05840,
  title  = {Compact groups in which commutators have finite right Engel sinks},
  author = {Evgeny Khukhro and Pavel Shumyatsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.05840},
  year   = {2024}
}
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