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Understanding Wall's theorem on dependence of Lie relators in Burnside groups

Group Theory 2020-02-04 v1

Abstract

G.E. Wall gave two different proofs of a remarkable result about the multilinear Lie relators satisfied by groups of prime power exponent qq. He showed that if qq is a power of the prime pp, and if ff is a multilinear Lie relator in nn variables where n1mod(p1)n\neq1\operatorname{mod}(p-1), then f=0f=0 is a consequence of multilinear Lie relators in fewer than nn variables. For years I have struggled to understand his proofs, and while I still have not the slightest clue about his first proof published in the Journal of Algebra, I finally have some understanding of his second proof published in a conference proceedings. In this note I offer my insights into Wall's second proof of this theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00359,
  title  = {Understanding Wall's theorem on dependence of Lie relators in Burnside groups},
  author = {Michael Vaughan-Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00359},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages