Countable covering conjecture for verbal values and group properties

Let Σ\Sigma be a property of profinite groups such that every finite group is a Σ\Sigma-group, the class of Σ\Sigma-groups is closed under taking subgroups, quotients and extensions, and whenever a profinite group GG is virtually soluble and G/Z(G)G/Z(G) is a Σ\Sigma-group, its commutator subgroup GG' is also a Σ\Sigma-group. Let ww be a multilinear commutator word, and let GG be a profinite group having countably many Σ\Sigma-subgroups whose union contains all ww-values in GG. Countable covering conjecture. Then w(G)w(G) has the property Σ\Sigma. The finite-covering analogue is known, while the paper explicitly states that it does not know whether the result remains true for countable coverings.

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Cristina Acciarri and Pavel Shumyatsky, “Coverings of commutators in profinite groups”, arXiv:1511.07843 (2015).

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