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ON THE RANK OF A VERBAL SUBGROUP OF A FINITE GROUP

Part of: Special aspects of infinite or finite groups Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2021

ELOISA DETOMI ,
MARTA MORIGI Open the ORCID record for MARTA MORIGI [Opens in a new window]  and
PAVEL SHUMYATSKY
ELOISA DETOMI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6/B, 35121Padova, Italy e-mail: eloisa.detomi@unipd.it
MARTA MORIGI*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Piazza di Porta San Donato 5, 40126Bologna, Italy
PAVEL SHUMYATSKY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Brasilia, Brasilia-DF, 70910-900, Brazil e-mail: pavel@unb.br
*
e-mail: marta.morigi@unibo.it
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Abstract

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We show that if w is a multilinear commutator word and G a finite group in which every metanilpotent subgroup generated by w-values is of rank at most r, then the rank of the verbal subgroup $w(G)$ is bounded in terms of r and w only. In the case where G is soluble, we obtain a better result: if G is a finite soluble group in which every nilpotent subgroup generated by w-values is of rank at most r, then the rank of $w(G)$ is at most $r+1$ .

Keywords

multilinear commutator wordsrankverbal subgroup

MSC classification

Primary: 20D20: Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, $pi$-groups, $pi$-structure
Secondary: 20F12: Commutator calculus
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 113 , Issue 2 , October 2022 , pp. 145 - 159
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Footnotes

Communicated by Ben Martin

The first and second authors are members of GNSAGA (Indam). The third author was partially supported by FAPDF and CNPq.

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