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Positive laws on generators in powerful pro-p groups

Group Theory 2011-08-03 v1

Abstract

If G is a finitely generated powerful pro-p group satisfying a certain law v=1, and if G can be generated by a normal subset T of finite width which satisfies a positive law, we prove that G is nilpotent. Furthermore, the nilpotency class of G can be bounded in terms of the prime p, the number of generators of G, the law v=1, the width of T, and the degree of the positive law. The main interest of this result is the application to verbal subgroups: if G is a p-adic analytic pro-p group in which all values of a word w satisfy positive law, and if the verbal subgroup w(G) is powerful, then w(G) is nilpotent.

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@article{arxiv.1108.0547,
  title  = {Positive laws on generators in powerful pro-p groups},
  author = {Cristina Acciarri and Gustavo A. Fernández-Alcober},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0547},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

8 pages, to appear in Proceedings of the Ischia Group Theory Conference 2010

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