On words that are concise in residually finite groups |
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Authors: | Cristina Acciarri Pavel Shumyatsky |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of Brasilia, Brasilia-DF, 70910-900, Brazil |
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Abstract: | A group-word w is called concise if whenever the set of w-values in a group G is finite it always follows that the verbal subgroup w(G) is finite. More generally, a word w is said to be concise in a class of groups X if whenever the set of w-values is finite for a group G∈X, it always follows that w(G) is finite. P. Hall asked whether every word is concise. Due to Ivanov the answer to this problem is known to be negative. Dan Segal asked whether every word is concise in the class of residually finite groups. In this direction we prove that if w is a multilinear commutator and q is a prime-power, then the word wq is indeed concise in the class of residually finite groups. Further, we show that in the case where w=γk the word wq is boundedly concise in the class of residually finite groups. It remains unknown whether the word wq is actually concise in the class of all groups. |
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Keywords: | Primary 20F10 Secondary 20E26 |
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