Nil-automorphisms of groups with residual properties.

DOI10.1007/S11856-013-0041-8MaRDI QIDQ375500zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Casolo, Orazio Puglisi

Publication date 31 October 2013

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3645

zbMATH Keywords

Engel elementsprofinite groupsresidually finite groupslocally graded groupsnil-automorphismsunipotent automorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Engel conditions (20F45) Local properties of groups (20E25)

Abstract: Following Plotkin we say that the automorphism $x$ of the group $G$ is a nil-automorphism if, for every $ginG$, there exists $n=n(g)$ such that $[g{,}_{n}x]=1$. If the integer $n$ can be chosen independently of $g$, then $x$ is said to be unipotent. Nil and unipotent automorphisms can be regarded as a natural extension of the concept of Engel element, since a nil-automorphism $x$ is just a left-Engel element in $G<x>$. In this paper we consider nil-automorphisms of groups with residual properties namely locally-graded groups, residually-finite groups and profinite groups. The first result we prove says that a finite group of nil-automorphisms of a locally graded group, must be nilpotent. Next we turn our attention to groups of unipotent automorphisms of residually-finite and profinite groups. We show that such groups are locally-nilpotent and, as a by-product, we obtain an alternative proof of a well known theorem of Wilson about n-Engel residually-finite groups.

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