scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1283940
automorphisms of groupsautomorphisms of prime orderrestricted Burnside problemvarieties of groups with operators
Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Automorphisms of abstract finite groups (20D45) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Associated Lie structures for groups (20F40) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50)
The author surveys generalizations of the restricted Burnside problem to groups with automorphisms. The positive solution of the restricted Burnside problem can be rephrased as a bound on the nilpotency class of a \(d\)-generated nilpotent group of exponent \(p^k\), where \(p\) is a prime, in terms of \(d\) and \(p^k\); this can also be stated in terms of varieties. In Sections~2-4 the author describes previous work on splitting automorphisms of prime order. The restricted Burnside problem is then described for groups with operators (Section~5), groups with coset identities (Section~6) and torsion compact groups (Section~7). In Sections~8-9 recent work of the author and P.~Shumyatsky is discussed. The main result (Theorem~8.2) is the following. Suppose \(A\) is an Abelian, non-cyclic group of automorphisms of a finite group \(G\). Suppose the orders of \(A\) and \(G\) are relatively prime. Let \(n\) be the least common multiple of \(\{|C_G(a)|:a\in A,\;a\neq 1\}\). Let \(q\) be the smallest prime divisor of \(|A|\) such that a Sylow \(q\)-subgroup of \(A\) is non-cyclic. Then the exponent of \(G\) is bounded in terms of \(n\) and \(q\). A variety of deep techniques to attack these problems is discussed. This includes the use of associated Lie algebras, and the theory of powerful \(p\)-groups. For the latter, see the book ``Analytic pro-\(p\) groups, by \textit{J. D. Dixon, M. P. F. du Sautoy, A. Mann} and \textit{D. Segal} [2nd ed. Cambridge Stud. Adv. Math. 61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1999; Zbl 0934.20001)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0908.00018].
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