Bounding the exponent of a verbal subgroup.

DOI10.1007/S10231-013-0336-8MaRDI QIDQ466955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eloisa Detomi, Marta Morigi, Pavel Shumyatsky

Publication date 31 October 2014

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4093

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsverbal subgroupexponentnilpotent subgroupscommutator wordsEngel wordsgroup words

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.) (20D25) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Commutator calculus (20F12) Engel conditions (20F45)

Abstract: We deal with the following conjecture. If w is a group word and G is a finite group in which any nilpotent subgroup generated by w-values has exponent dividing e, then the exponent of the verbal subgroup w(G) is bounded in terms of e and w only. We show that this is true in the case where w is either the nth Engel word or the word [x^n,y_1,y_2,...,y_k] (Theorem A). Further, we show that for any positive integer e there exists a number k=k(e) such that if w is a word and G is a finite group in which any nilpotent subgroup generated by products of k values of the word w has exponent dividing e, then the exponent of the verbal subgroup w(G) is bounded in terms of e and w only (Theorem B).

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