Almost Engel compact groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2017.04.021MaRDI QIDQ1702711zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Evgenii I. Khukhro, Pavel Shumyatsky

Publication date 28 February 2018

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02079, http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/27427/1/khu-shu162.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

compact groupsEngel conditionfinite groupslocally nilpotent groupsprofinite groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.) (20D25) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Engel conditions (20F45) Compact groups (22C05)

Abstract: We say that a group $G$ is almost Engel if for every $ginG$ there is a finite set $mathscrE(g)$ such that for every $xinG$ all sufficiently long commutators $[\mathrm{...}[[x,g],g],dots,g]$ belong to $mathscrE(g)$, that is, for every $xinG$ there is a positive integer $n(x,g)$ such that $[\mathrm{...}[[x,g],g],dots,g]inmathscrE(g)$ if $g$ is repeated at least $n(x,g)$ times. (Thus, Engel groups are precisely the almost Engel groups for which we can choose $mathscrE(g)=1$ for all $ginG$.) We prove that if a compact (Hausdorff) group $G$ is almost Engel, then $G$ has a finite normal subgroup $N$ such that $G/N$ is locally nilpotent. If in addition there is a uniform bound $|mathscrE(g)|leqm$ for the orders of the corresponding sets, then the subgroup $N$ can be chosen of order bounded in terms of $m$. The proofs use the Wilson--Zelmanov theorem saying that Engel profinite groups are locally nilpotent.

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