On soluble groups of prime-power exponent

Abstract

Let p be a prime and the variety of elementary abelian by elementary abelian p-groups. A result of Brisley and Macdonald is generalized as follows. If H is a finite group in and G is a soluble group of p–power exponent such that no section of G is isomorphic to H, then G is nilpotent and its class is bounded by a function of three variables: H, the exponent of G, and the soluble length of G. It is a corollary that if the variety generated by a soluble group G of finite exponent contains , then each finite group in is isomorphic to some section of G.