Engel elements in some fractal groups

DOI10.1007/S00605-018-1218-3MaRDI QIDQ2313392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gustavo A. Fernández-Alcober, Albert Garreta, Marialaura Noce

Publication date 19 July 2019

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04595

zbMATH Keywords

basilica groupEngel elementfractal groupGGS grouplamplighter group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Engel conditions (20F45)

Abstract: Let $p$ be a prime and let $G$ be a subgroup of a Sylow pro-$p$ subgroup of the group of automorphisms of the $p$-adic tree. We prove that if $G$ is fractal and $|G^{\prime }:mathrm{st}_G(1{)}^{\prime }|=infty$, then the set $L(G)$ of left Engel elements of $G$ is trivial. This result applies to fractal nonabelian groups with torsion-free abelianization, for example the Basilica group, the Brunner-Sidki-Vieira group, and also to the GGS-group with constant defining vector. We further provide two examples showing that neither of the requirements $|G^{\prime }:mathrm{st}_G(1{)}^{\prime }|=infty$ and being fractal can be dropped.

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