Central-by-Chernikov groups are compact co-Chernikov CC-groups. (Q2504768)

\textit{M. R. Dixon} has shown [Glasg. Math. J. 23, 65-82 (1982; Zbl 0474.20017)] how one can generalize the theory of cofinite groups, that is, residually finite groups with a given finite residual systems, to a theory of co-Chernikov groups, and then extend the theory of profinite completions and profinite groups to a theory of pro-Chernikov completions and pro-Chernikov groups. In the paper under review the author characterizes central-by-Chernikov groups as those co-Chernikov CC-groups whose pro-Chernikov completions are again CC-groups. Here a group \(G\) is called CC if for every \(x\in G\) one has that \(G/C_G(x^G)\) is a Chernikov group.