Writing certain commutators as products of cubes in free groups (Q1861464)

The author shows how to express \([x,y,x]\) as a product of three cubes in a free group on generators \(x,y\); and proves that \([x,y,x]^n\) is a product of two squares only if \(3\mid n\). Another observation is that every element of the commutator subgroup \(W'\) of the wreath product \(W=G\wr C_\infty\) can be written as a product of one commutator and three cubes for any group \(G\).