On words that are concise in residually finite groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2013.04.018zbMATH Open1302.20036arXiv1212.0581OpenAlexW1976677404MaRDI QIDQ392389FDOQ392389

Authors: Cristina Acciarri, Pavel Shumyatsky 

Publication date: 14 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A group-word w is called concise if whenever the set of w-values in a group G is finite it always follows that the verbal subgroup w(G) is finite. More generally, a word w is said to be concise in a class of groups X if whenever the set of w-values is finite for a group $GinX$, it always follows that w(G) is finite. P. Hall asked whether every word is concise. Due to Ivanov the answer to this problem is known to be negative. Dan Segal asked whether every word is concise in the class of residually finite groups. In this direction we prove that if w is a multilinear commutator and q is a prime-power, then the word $w^q$ is indeed concise in the class of residually finite groups. Further, we show that in the case where $w=gamm{a}_k$ the word $w^q$ is boundedly concise in the class of residually finite groups. It remains unknown whether the word $w^q$ is actually concise in the class of all groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0581

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zbMATH Keywords

multilinear commutator wordsresidually finite groupsverbal subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Commutator calculus (20F12) Quasivarieties and varieties of groups (20E10)

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