[GAP Forum] Verify if G is 2-Engel.

Primoz Moravec primoz.moravec at fmf.uni-lj.si
Sat Jan 21 17:29:00 GMT 2012


Dear Joy,

you can use the fact that G is 2-Engel if all normal closures of 
elements are abelian. It suffices to check this on representatives of 
conjugacy classes:

ForAll(ConjugacyClasses(G), c -> IsAbelian(NormalClosure(G, Subgroup(G, 
[Representative(c)]))));

Primoz.

On 01/21/2012 03:09 PM, Joy F. wrote:
> Dear forum,
>
>
> How do I check if a group G is 2-Engel?
>
> Joy.
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