Periodic endomorphisms of polycyclic groups. (Q644588)

Let \(G\) be a polycyclic group. It is a well known fact that any periodic subgroup of \(\Aut(G)\) is finite; on the other hand a semigroup of periodic endomorphisms of \(G\) need not be finite (an element \(\sigma\) of a semigroup \(\Sigma\) is said to be periodic if the semigroup \(\langle\sigma\rangle\) generated by \(\sigma\) is finite; the order of \(\sigma\) is the cardinality of \(\langle\sigma\rangle\)). In this paper the author proves that any semigroup of periodic endomorphisms of a polycyclic group \(G\) is locally finite and that for any polycyclic group \(G\), there exists an integer \(\nu(G)\) such that every periodic endomorphism of \(G\) is of order at most \(\nu(G)\).