Anticentral and antisemicentral elements of infinite soluble groups (Q1696187)

The element $x$ is anticentral in $G$ if $[G,x] = G'$, it is antisemicentral if there is a normal subgroup $N$ of $G$ such that $N \subseteq [G,x]$ and $|G',N|$ finite; here $[G,x] = \{[g,x]\mid g \in G \}$. The author considers these concepts mainly in FAR-groups: soluble-by-finite groups with finite Hirsch-number satisfying the minimum condition on $p$-subgroups for every prime $p$. This class of groups includes all soluble-by-finite groups of finite rank. \par The main theorems are generalizations of earlier results of the author, for example Theorem 3 states: Let $G$ be an FAR-group and $a$ an element of $G$ of order a prime $p$. The following are equivalent: \begin{itemize} \item[(a)] conjugation by $a$ is a fixed-point-free automorphism of $G'$, \item[(b)] $a$ is an antisemicentral element of $G$, \item[(c)] there exists a normal subgroup $N$ of $G$ in $G'$ such that $|G',N|$ is finite and $(at)^p = 1$ for all $t \in N'$. \end{itemize}