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Engel-like conditions in fixed points of automorphisms of profinite groups

Group Theory 2019-02-25 v1

Abstract

Let qq be a prime and AA an elementary abelian qq-group acting as a coprime group of automorphisms on a profinite group GG. We show that if AA is of order q2q^2 and some power of each element in CG(a)C_G(a) is Engel in GG for any aA#a\in A^{\#}, then GG is locally virtually nilpotent. Assuming that AA is of order q3q^3 we prove that if some power of each element in CG(a)C_G(a) is Engel in CG(a)C_G(a) for any aA#a\in A^{\#}, then GG is locally virtually nilpotent. Some analogues consequences of quantitative nature for finite groups are also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1902.08612,
  title  = {Engel-like conditions in fixed points of automorphisms of profinite groups},
  author = {Cristina Acciarri and Danilo Silveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.08612},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

14 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1702.02899, arXiv:1707.06889, arXiv:1703.00988