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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2016
Suppose that a finite group G admits an automorphism of order 2n such that the fixed-point subgroup
of the involution
is nilpotent of class c. Let m =
) be the number of fixed points of
. It is proved that G has a characteristic soluble subgroup of derived length bounded in terms of n, c whose index is bounded in terms of m, n, c. A similar result is also proved for Lie rings.