{ "id": "2012.13886", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-12-27T07:51:08.000Z", "updated": "2020-12-27T07:51:08.000Z", "title": "Profinite groups with many elements of bounded order", "authors": [ "Alireza Abdollahi", "Meisam Soleimani Malekan" ], "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "L\\'evai and Pyber proposed the following as a conjecture: Let $G$ be a profinite group such that the set of solutions of the equation $x^n=1$ has positive Haar measure. Then $G$ has an open subgroup $H$ and an element $t$ such that all elements of the coset $tH$ have order dividing $n$ (see Problem 14.53 of [The Kourovka Notebook, No. 19, 2019]). \\\\ The validity of the conjecture has been proved in [Arch. Math. (Basel) 75 (2000) 1-7] for $n=2$. Here we confirm the conjecture for $n=3$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-12-27T07:51:08.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20E18", "20P05" ], "keywords": [ "profinite group", "bounded order", "conjecture", "kourovka notebook", "open subgroup" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }