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RIGHT ENGEL-TYPE SUBGROUPS AND LENGTH PARAMETERS OF FINITE GROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

E. I. KHUKHRO*
Affiliation:
Charlotte Scott Research Centre for Algebra, University of Lincoln, LincolnLN6 7TS, UK
P. SHUMYATSKY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, DF 70910-900, Brazil e-mail: pavel@unb.br
G. TRAUSTASON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK e-mail: G.Traustason@bath.ac.uk

Abstract

Let $g$ be an element of a finite group $G$ and let $R_{n}(g)$ be the subgroup generated by all the right Engel values $[g,_{n}x]$ over $x\in G$. In the case when $G$ is soluble we prove that if, for some $n$, the Fitting height of $R_{n}(g)$ is equal to $k$, then $g$ belongs to the $(k+1)$th Fitting subgroup $F_{k+1}(G)$. For nonsoluble $G$, it is proved that if, for some $n$, the generalized Fitting height of $R_{n}(g)$ is equal to $k$, then $g$ belongs to the generalized Fitting subgroup $F_{f(k,m)}^{\ast }(G)$ with $f(k,m)$ depending only on $k$ and $m$, where $|g|$ is the product of $m$ primes counting multiplicities. It is also proved that if, for some $n$, the nonsoluble length of $R_{n}(g)$ is equal to $k$, then $g$ belongs to a normal subgroup whose nonsoluble length is bounded in terms of $k$ and $m$. Earlier, similar generalizations of Baer’s theorem (which states that an Engel element of a finite group belongs to the Fitting subgroup) were obtained by the first two authors in terms of left Engel-type subgroups.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

Communicated by B. Martin

The first author was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 14-21-00065, the second by FAPDF, Brazil, and the third by EPSRC.

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