Existence of a non-locally nilpotent Engel group

Let GG be an Engel group, meaning that there is an integer nn such that

[[x,y],,yn]=1[[x,\underbrace{y],\dots,y}_{n}]=1

for all x,yGx,y\in G. Engel-group conjecture. There exists an Engel group that is not locally nilpotent. This is a long-standing open problem; in the setting of PIPI-groups, every Engel group is locally nilpotent, but it is not known whether an arbitrary non-locally nilpotent Engel group exists.

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E. Aladova and B. Plotkin, “PI-groups and PI-representations of groups”, arXiv:0905.3651 (2009).

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