Powers in Eighth-Groups

Powers in finite groups

If G is a finitely generated profinite group then the verbal subgroup Gq is open. In a d-generator finite group every product of qth powers is a product of f(d, q) qth powers. 20E20, 20F20.

Powers in Finitely Generated Groups

In this paper we study the set Γn of nth-powers in certain finitely generated groups Γ. We show that, if Γ is soluble or linear, and Γn contains a finite index subgroup, then Γ is nilpotent-by-finite. We also show that, if Γ is linear and Γn has finite index (i.e. Γ may be covered by finitely many translations of Γn), then Γ is soluble-by-finite. The proof applies invariant measures on amenable...

Boolean Powers of Groups

A group is ^-separating if a Boolean power of the group has a unique Boolean algebra. It is proved that a finite subdirectly irreducible group is S-separating if and only if it is non-Abelian. Suppose B is a Boolean ring and G is a group. Let B[G] denote the group ring of G with coefficient ring B. The Boolean power G [B] is defined to be the set of those elements 2e,.g,. EB[G] such that (1) 2e...

On the Waring-Goldbach problem for eighth and higher powers

Boolean Powers of Abelian Groups

where (f + g)(u) = V_,,+,,,f(v) A f(w). Since E is countable, ZcB) can be defined for any countably complete Boolean algebra (ccBa) B where Z is the group of the integers. This kind of group was first (1962) studied by Balcerzyk [l]. However, it seems that not much attention was paid to such groups for a rather long period. Under the point of view in [l, Theorem 51 and [13, Proposition 11, it c...