A note on Engel elements in the first Grigorchuk group

DOI10.22108/IJGT.2018.109911.1470MaRDI QIDQ5124329zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marialaura Noce, Antonio Tortora

Publication date 18 September 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09032

zbMATH Keywords

Engel elementsGrigorchuk group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Engel conditions (20F45)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be the first Grigorchuk group. According to a result of Bartholdi, the only left Engel elements of $Gamma$ are the involutions. This implies that the set of left Engel elements of $Gamma$ is not a subgroup. Of particular interest is to wonder whether this happens also for the sets of bounded left Engel elements, right Engel elements, and bounded right Engel elements of $Gamma$. Motivated by this, we prove that these three subsets of $Gamma$ coincide with the identity subgroup.

Recommendations

• Engel elements in weakly branch groups
• Engel elements in some fractal groups
• Bounded Engel elements in groups satisfying an identity
• On Engel elements of a group relative to certain subgroup.
• Algorithmic decidability of Engel's property for automaton groups

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1544074 (Why is no real title available?)
• Algorithmic decidability of Engel's property for automaton groups
• Bounded Engel elements in groups satisfying an identity
• Engel Elements in Groups
• On Burnside's problem on periodic groups

Cited in

(6)

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5713134 (Why is no real title available?)
• Algorithmic problems in Engel groups and cryptographic applications
• Engel elements in some fractal groups
• Engel elements in weakly branch groups
• Algorithmic decidability of Engel's property for automaton groups
• On finitely generated Engel branch groups

This page was built for publication: A note on Engel elements in the first Grigorchuk group

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5124329)