The paper continues the study of images of word maps with constants \( {\tilde{w}}_{\Sigma}:{G}^n\to G \) of a simple algebraic group G, started by F. Gnutov and N. Gordeev (2019). It is proved that for adjoint simple algebraic groups of type Bl, Cl, F4, G2 over a field of characteristic ≠ 2, 3, the map \( \pi \circ \tilde{w}, \) where \( {\tilde{w}}_{\Sigma} \) is word map without small constants and π : G → T/W is the factorization map, is a constant map if and only if wΣ = vgv−1, where g ∈ G and v is a word with constants.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 492, 2020, pp. 75–93.
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Gnutov, F.A. On the Image of a Word Map with Constants of a Simple Algebraic Group. II. J Math Sci 264, 48–59 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-022-05978-7
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