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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
A group G is said to have the FINITE INDEX property (G is an FI-group) if, whenever H≤G, xp ∈ H for some x in G and p > 0, then |〈H, x〉: H| is finite. Following a brief discussion of some locally nilpotent groups with this property, it is shown that torsion-free solvable groups of finite rank which have the isolator property are FI-groups. It is deduced from this that a finitely generated torsion-free solvable group has an FI-subgroup of finite index if and only if it has finite rank.
Research partially supported by a grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.