Compact groups in which all elements are almost right Engel

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAZ002zbMATH Open1454.20076arXiv1807.06452OpenAlexW2919741002WikidataQ128586120 ScholiaQ128586120MaRDI QIDQ5147014FDOQ5147014

Pavel Shumyatsky, Evgenii I. Khukhro

Publication date: 2 February 2021

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06452

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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