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BOUNDING THE ORDER OF THE NILPOTENT RESIDUAL OF A FINITE GROUP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

AGENOR FREITAS DE ANDRADE
Affiliation:
Department of Academic Areas, Federal Institute of Goias, Luziânia-GO, 72811-580, Brazil email agenor.andrade@ifg.edu.br
PAVEL SHUMYATSKY*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Brasilia, Brasilia-DF, 70910-900, Brazil email pavel@unb.br
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Abstract

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The last term of the lower central series of a finite group $G$ is called the nilpotent residual. It is usually denoted by $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{\infty }(G)$. The lower Fitting series of $G$ is defined by $D_{0}(G)=G$ and $D_{i+1}(G)=\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{\infty }(D_{i}(G))$ for $i=0,1,2,\ldots \,$. These subgroups are generated by so-called coprime commutators $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{k}^{\ast }$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}_{k}^{\ast }$ in elements of $G$. More precisely, the set of coprime commutators $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{k}^{\ast }$ generates $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{\infty }(G)$ whenever $k\geq 2$ while the set $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}_{k}^{\ast }$ generates $D_{k}(G)$ for $k\geq 0$. The main result of this article is the following theorem: let $m$ be a positive integer and $G$ a finite group. Let $X\subset G$ be either the set of all $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{k}^{\ast }$-commutators for some fixed $k\geq 2$ or the set of all $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}_{k}^{\ast }$-commutators for some fixed $k\geq 1$. Suppose that the size of $a^{X}$ is at most $m$ for any $a\in G$. Then the order of $\langle X\rangle$ is $(k,m)$-bounded.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2016 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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