On finite groups with an automorphism of prime order whose fixed points have bounded Engel sinks

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Abstract: A left Engel sink of an element g of a group G is a set mathscrE(g) such that for every xinG all sufficiently long commutators [...[[x,g],g],dots,g] belong to mathscrE(g). (Thus, g is a left Engel element precisely when we can choose mathscrE(g)=1.) We prove that if a finite group G admits an automorphism varphi of prime order coprime to |G| such that for some positive integer m every element of the centralizer CG(varphi) has a left Engel sink of cardinality at most m, then the index of the second Fitting subgroup F2(G) is bounded in terms of m. A right Engel sink of an element g of a group G is a set mathscrR(g) such that for every xinG all sufficiently long commutators [...[[g,x],x],dots,x] belong to mathscrR(g). (Thus, g is a right Engel element precisely when we can choose mathscrR(g)=1.) We prove that if a finite group G admits an automorphism varphi of prime order coprime to |G| such that for some positive integer m every element of the centralizer CG(varphi) has a right Engel sink of cardinality at most m, then the index of the Fitting subgroup F1(G) is bounded in terms of m.











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