On some systems of equations with constraints in a free group. (Sur certains systèmes d'équations avec contraintes dans un groupe libre.)
We give the description of locally finite groups with strongly balanced subgroup lattices and we prove that the strong uniform dimension of such groups exists. Moreover we show how to determine this dimension.
Let G* denote a nonprincipal ultrapower of a group G. In 1986 M.~Boffa posed a question equivalent to the following one: if G does not satisfy a positive law, does G* contain a free nonabelian subsemigroup? We give the affirmative answer to this question in the large class of groups containing all residually finite and all soluble groups, in fact, all groups considered in traditional textbooks on group theory.
We study the Cantor-Bendixson rank of metabelian and virtually metabelian groups in the space of marked groups, and in particular, we exhibit a sequence of 2-generated, finitely presented, virtually metabelian groups of Cantor-Bendixson rank .