On profinite groups with automorphisms whose fixed points have countable Engel sinks

DOI10.1007/S11856-021-2267-1MaRDI QIDQ6342558arXivFDO

Authors Evgenii I. Khukhro, Pavel Shumyatsky

Publication date 10 June 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11856-021-2267-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Generalizations of solvable and nilpotent groups (20F19) Engel conditions (20F45)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: An Engel sink of an element $g$ of a group $G$ is a set $mathscrE(g)$ such that for every $xinG$ all sufficiently long commutators $[\mathrm{...}[[x,g],g],dots,g]$ belong to $mathscrE(g)$. (Thus, $g$ is an Engel element precisely when we can choose $mathscrE(g)=1$.) It is proved that if a profinite group $G$ admits an elementary abelian group of automorphisms $A$ of coprime order $q^2$ for a prime $q$ such that for each $ainAsetminus1$ every element of the centralizer $C_G(a)$ has a countable (or finite) Engel sink, then $G$ has a finite normal subgroup $N$ such that $G/N$ is locally nilpotent.

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