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No iterated identities satisfied by all finite groups

Group Theory 2017-12-08 v2

Abstract

We show that there is no iterated identity satisfied by all finite groups. For ww being a non-trivial word of length ll, we show that there exists a finite group GG of cardinality at most exp(lC)\exp(l^C) which does not satisfy the iterated identity ww. The proof uses the approach of Borisov and Sapir, who used dynamics of polynomial mappings for the proof of non residual finiteness of some groups.

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@article{arxiv.1710.04084,
  title  = {No iterated identities satisfied by all finite groups},
  author = {Anna Erschler and Alexei Kanel-Belov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04084},
  year   = {2017}
}

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21 pages

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