When right n-Engel elements of a group form a subgroup?
Abstract
Let denotes the set of all right -Engel elements of a group . We show that in any group whose 5th term of lower central series has no element of order 2, is a subgroup. Furthermore we prove that is a subgroup for locally nilpotent groups without elements of orders 2, 3 or 5; and in this case the normal closure is nilpotent of class at most 7 for each . Using a group constructed by Newman and Nickel we also show that, for each , there exists a nilpotent group of class containing a right -Engel element and an element such that both and are of infinite order for all integers . We finish the paper by proving that at least one of the following happens: (1) There is an infinite finitely generated -Engel group of exponent for some positive integer and some 2-power number . (2) There is a group generated by finitely many bounded left Engel elements which is not an Engel group.
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@article{arxiv.0906.2439,
title = {When right n-Engel elements of a group form a subgroup?},
author = {A. Abdollahi and H. Khosravi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.2439},
year = {2009}
}