A finiteness condition on centralizers in locally nilpotent groups (Q509706)

In this paper and its companion paper [``A finiteness condition on centralizers in locally finite groups'', ibid. 183, No. 2, 241--250 (2017; \url{doi:10.1007/s00605-016-0939-4})] the authors study a finiteness condition on centralizers of elements in a locally graded group. More precisely, a group \(G\) is called an FCI-group (``finite centralizer index'') iff for every element \(x\in G\) such that \(\langle x \rangle\ntriangleleft G\) we have that \(|C_G(x):\langle x \rangle|<\infty\). (Note that for periodic groups, this condition is equivalent to \(|C_G(x)|<\infty\) for all \(\langle x \rangle\ntriangleleft G\).) If in addition for some positive integer \(n\) the condition \(|C_G(x):\langle x \rangle|\leq n\) holds for all \(\langle x \rangle\ntriangleleft G\), then \(G\) is called a BCI-group (``bounded centralizer index''). In the companion paper mentioned above, which is the first of the two even though it appeared after the one under review in the same journal, the authors dealt with infinite locally finite FCI-groups, and with periodic BCI-groups. In the paper under review, the authors extend their earlier work to infinite locally nilpotent FCI-groups, and to all non-periodic BCI-groups. They obtain a detailed description of such groups,which are certain cyclic extensions of Dedekind groups.