On nilpotent groups having an almost regular automorphism of prime order (Q1920776)

We extend the result of an earlier paper [ibid. 33, No. 5, 206-208 (1992; Zbl 0786.20025)] by analogy. Theorem. If a nilpotent group \(G\) admits an automorphism \(\varphi\) of prime order \(p\) with a finite number \(q\) of fixed points, then for some function \(s(p,q)\) the subgroup \(G^{s(p,q)}\) generated by all \(s(p,q)\)th powers is nilpotent of class \(\leq h(p)\).