Engel probability in wreath products of $p$-groups
Group Theory
2026-07-13 v1
Abstract
We give upper and lower bounds for the number of solutions of the equation in the group , where is the -th Engel word and . We obtain several corollaries from this. First, we prove a stronger version of the Amit-Ashurst conjecture for Engel words in . We also prove that Engel words are not probabilistic identities in profinite groups with arbitrarily large wreath product quotients . To conclude, we construct closed subsets of with positive Haar measure, empty-interior, and which are the preimage of an Engel word map.
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@article{arxiv.2607.11605,
title = {Engel probability in wreath products of $p$-groups},
author = {Iker de las Heras and Tommaso Toti and Matteo Vannacci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.11605},
year = {2026}
}
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19 pages