Compact groups in which all elements are almost right Engel

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAZ002MaRDI QIDQ5147014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Evgenii I. Khukhro, Pavel Shumyatsky

Publication date 2 February 2021

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06452, http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/34681/1/khu-shu172.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact groups (22C05) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Engel conditions (20F45)

Abstract: We say that an element $g$ of a group $G$ is almost right Engel if there is a finite set $mathscrR(g)$ such that for every $xinG$ all sufficiently long commutators $[\mathrm{...}[[g,x],x],dots,x]$ belong to $mathscrR(g)$, that is, for every $xinG$ there is a positive integer $n(x,g)$ such that $[\mathrm{...}[[g,x],x],dots,x]inmathscrR(g)$ if $x$ is repeated at least $n(x,g)$ times. Thus, $g$ is a right Engel element precisely when we can choose $mathscrR(g)=1$. We prove that if all elements of a compact (Hausdorff) group $G$ are almost right Engel, then $G$ has a finite normal subgroup $N$ such that $G/N$ is locally nilpotent. If in addition there is a uniform bound $|mathscrR(g)|leqm$ for the orders of the corresponding sets, then the subgroup $N$ can be chosen of order bounded in terms of $m$. The proofs use the Wilson--Zelmanov theorem saying that Engel profinite groups are locally nilpotent and previous results of the authors about compact groups all elements of which are almost left Engel.

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